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

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            hollow; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2013" xml:space="preserve">and let two ipeak or ſing, the one long ways the other traverſe.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2014" xml:space="preserve">And let two hear at the oppoſite ends; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2015" xml:space="preserve">and note, whether the Sound be
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            confounded, amplified, or dulled. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2016" xml:space="preserve">Which two inſtances will alſo give light
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            to the mixture of Sounds, whereof we ſhall ſpeak hereafter.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2018" xml:space="preserve">A Bellows, blown into the hole of a Drum, and the Drum then ſtrucken,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-01" xlink:href="note-0075-01a" xml:space="preserve">162.</note>
            maketh the Sound a little flatter, but no other apparent alteration.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2019" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2020" xml:space="preserve">partly for that it hindreth the iſſue of the Sound; </s>
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            and partly for that it maketh the Air being blown together, leſs move-
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            able.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2023" xml:space="preserve">THe Loudneſs and Softneſs of Sounds, is a thing diſtinct from the Mag-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-02" xlink:href="note-0075-02a" xml:space="preserve">163.</note>
            nitude and Exility of Sounds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2024" xml:space="preserve">for a Baſe-ſtring, though ſoftly ſtrucken,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-03" xlink:href="note-0075-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Loudneſs or
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              Softneß of
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              Sounds, and
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              their Carriage
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              at longer or
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              ſhorter diſtance.</note>
            giveth the greater Sound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2025" xml:space="preserve">but a Trebble ſtring, if hard ftrucken, will be
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            heard much further off. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2026" xml:space="preserve">And the cauſe is, for that the Baſe-ſtring ſtriketh
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            more Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2027" xml:space="preserve">and the Trebble leſs Air, but with a ſharper percuſſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2029" xml:space="preserve">It is therefore the ſtrength of the Percuſſion, that is a principal cauſe
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            of the loudneſs or ſoftneſs of Sounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2030" xml:space="preserve">As in knocking, harder or ſofter;
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-04" xlink:href="note-0075-04a" xml:space="preserve">164.</note>
            Winding of a Horn, ſtronger or weaker; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2032" xml:space="preserve">Ringing of an Hand bell, harder
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            or ſoftcr, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2033" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2034" xml:space="preserve">And the ſtrength of this Percuſſion conſiſteth, as much or
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            more, in the hardneſs of the Body percuſſed, as in the force of the Body
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            percuſſing: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2035" xml:space="preserve">For if you ſtrike againſt a Cloth, it will give a leſs ſound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2036" xml:space="preserve">if
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            againſt Wood, a greater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2037" xml:space="preserve">if againſt a Metal, yet a greater; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2038" xml:space="preserve">and in Metals,
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            if you ſtrike againſt Gold, (which is the more pliant) it giveth the flatter
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            ſound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2039" xml:space="preserve">if againſt Silver or Braſs, the more ringing ſound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2040" xml:space="preserve">As for Air, where
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            it is ſtrongly pent, it matcheth a hard Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2041" xml:space="preserve">And therefore we ſee in diſ-
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            charging of a piece, what a great noiſe it maketh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2042" xml:space="preserve">We ſee alſo, that the
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            Charge with Bullet, or with Paper wet, and hard ſtopped; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2043" xml:space="preserve">or with Pow-
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            der alone rammed in hard, maketh no great difference in the loudneſs of the
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            report.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2045" xml:space="preserve">The ſharpneſs or quickneſs of the Percuſſion, is a great cauſe of the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-05" xlink:href="note-0075-05a" xml:space="preserve">165.</note>
            loudneſs, as well as the ſtrength: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2046" xml:space="preserve">As in a Whip or Wand, if you ſtrike
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            the Air with it, the ſharper and quicker you ſtrike it, the louder ſound it
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            giveth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2047" xml:space="preserve">And in playing upon the Lute or Virginals, the quick ſtroke or
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            touch is a great life to the Sound. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2048" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the quick ſtrik-
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            ing cutteth the Air ſpeedily, whereas the ſoft ſtriking, doth rather beat
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            than cut.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2050" xml:space="preserve">THe Communication of Sounds (as in Bellies of Lutes, empty Veſſels, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2051" xml:space="preserve">c.)
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-06" xlink:href="note-0075-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Communicati-
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              on of Sounds.</note>
            hath been touched obiter, in the Majoration of Sounds: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2053" xml:space="preserve">But it is fit alſo to
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            make a Title of it apart.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2055" xml:space="preserve">The Experiment, for greateſt Demonſtration of Communication of
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            Sounds, is the Chiming of Bells; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2056" xml:space="preserve">where, if you ſtrike with a Hammar
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            upon the upper part, and then upon the midſt, and then upon the lower,
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            you ſhall finde the ſound to be more Trebble, and more Baſe, according
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            unto the Concave on the inſide, though the Percuſſion be onely on the
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            outſide.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2058" xml:space="preserve">When the Sound is created between the Blaſt of the Mouth, and the Air
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            of the Pipe, it hath nevertheleſs ſome communication with the matter of the
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            ſides of the Pipe, and the ſpirits in them contained: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2059" xml:space="preserve">For in a Pipe or Trum-
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            pet of Wood and Braſs, the ſound will be diverſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2060" xml:space="preserve">ſo if the Pipe be </s>
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