Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head29" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head30" xml:space="preserve">Century II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1546" xml:space="preserve">MUſick in the Practice, hath been well purſued, and in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-01" xlink:href="note-0063-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort
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              touching
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              Muſick.</note>
            good Variety; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1547" xml:space="preserve">but in the Theory, and eſpecially in
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            the yielding of the Cauſes of the Practick, very weak-
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            ly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1548" xml:space="preserve">being reduced into certain Myſtical ſubtilties,
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            and not much truth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1549" xml:space="preserve">We ſhall therefore, after our
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            manner, joyn the Contemplative and Active Part
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            together.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1551" xml:space="preserve">All Sounds are either Muſical Sounds, which we call Tones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1552" xml:space="preserve">whereunto
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-02" xlink:href="note-0063-02a" xml:space="preserve">101.</note>
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            there may be an Harmony, which Sounds are ever equal: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1553" xml:space="preserve">As Singing, the
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            Sounds of Stringed, and Wind-Inſtruments, the Ringing of Bells, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1554" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1555" xml:space="preserve">or
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            Immuſical Sounds, which are everunequal: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1556" xml:space="preserve">Such as are the Voice in Speak-
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            ing, all Whiſperings, all Voices of Beaſts and Birds (except they be Sing-
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            ing Birds;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1557" xml:space="preserve">all Percuſſions, of Stones, Wood, Parchment, Skins, (as in
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            Drums) and infinite others.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1559" xml:space="preserve">The Sounds that produce Tones, are ever from ſuch Bodies as are in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-03" xlink:href="note-0063-03a" xml:space="preserve">102.</note>
            their Parts and Pores equal; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1560" xml:space="preserve">as well as the Sounds themſelves are equal:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1561" xml:space="preserve">And ſuch are the Percuſſions of Metal, as in Bells; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1562" xml:space="preserve">of Glaß, as in the ſillip-
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            ping of a Drinking Glaß; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1563" xml:space="preserve">of Air, as in Mens Voices whileſt they ſing, in Pipes,
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            VVhiſtles, Organs, Stringed Inſtruments, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1564" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1565" xml:space="preserve">And of Water, as in the Nightin-
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            gals Pipes of Regals, or Organs, and other Hydraulicks, which the Ancients
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            had; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1566" xml:space="preserve">and Nero did ſo much eſteem, but are now loſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1567" xml:space="preserve">And if any Manthink,
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            that the String of the Bow, and the String of the Vial, are neither of them
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            equal Bodies, and yet produce Tones; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1568" xml:space="preserve">he is in an error. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1569" xml:space="preserve">For the Sound is
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            not created between the Bow or Plectrum, and the String; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1570" xml:space="preserve">but between the
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            String and the Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1571" xml:space="preserve">no more than it is between the Finger or Quill, and the
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            String in other Inſtruments. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1572" xml:space="preserve">So there are (in effect) but three Percußions </s>
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