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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head31" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head32" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2303" xml:space="preserve">ALL Sounds (whatſoever) move round, that is to ſay, On
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-01" xlink:href="note-0083-01a" xml:space="preserve">201.</note>
            allſides, Upwards, Downwards, Forewards, and Back-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-02" xlink:href="note-0083-02a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Motions of
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              Sounds, in
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              what Lines
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              they are Cir-
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              cular, Oblick,
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              Straight, Vp-
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              wards, Down-
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              wards, For-
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              wards, Back-
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              wards.</note>
            wards: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2304" xml:space="preserve">This appeareth in all Inſtances.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2306" xml:space="preserve">Sounds do not require to be conveighed to the Senſe
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            in a right Line, as Viſibles do, but may be arched, though
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            it be true they move ſtrongeſt in a right Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2307" xml:space="preserve">which
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            neverthelels is not cauſed by the rightneſs of the Line,
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            but by the ſhortneſs of the diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2308" xml:space="preserve">Linearectea brevißi-
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            ma. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2309" xml:space="preserve">And therefore, we ſee if a Wallbe between, and you ſpeak on the one
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            ſide, vou hear it on the other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2310" xml:space="preserve">which is not b@cauſe the ſound paſſeth thorow
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            the Wall, but arched over the Wall.</s>
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          <note position="right" xml:space="preserve">202.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2312" xml:space="preserve">If the Sound be ſtopped and repercuſſed, it cometh about on the other
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-04" xlink:href="note-0083-04a" xml:space="preserve">203.</note>
            ſide, in an oblick Line: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2313" xml:space="preserve">So, if in a Coach, one ſide of the Boot be down, and
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            the other up, and a Begger beg on the cloſe ſide, you would think that he
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            were on the open ſide. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2314" xml:space="preserve">So like wiſe, if a Bell or Clock, be (for example)
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            on the North-ſide of a Chamber, and the Window of that Chamber be
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            upon the South; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2315" xml:space="preserve">he that is in the Chamber, will think the ſound came from
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            the South.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2317" xml:space="preserve">Sounds, though they ſpred round, ſo that (there is an orb, or ſpherical
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0083-05" xlink:href="note-0083-05a" xml:space="preserve">204.</note>
            Area of the Sound) yet they move ſtrongeſt, and go furtheſt in the Fore-
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            Lines, from the firſt Local Impulſion of the Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2318" xml:space="preserve">And therefore in Preach-
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            ing, you ſhall hear the Preachers voice better before the Pulpit than be-
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            hinde it, or on the ſides, though it ſtand open. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2319" xml:space="preserve">So a Harqucbuz or Ordnance
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            will be further heard forwards, from the mouth of the Piece, than back-
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            wards, or on the ſides.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2321" xml:space="preserve">It may be doubted, that Sounds do move better do wnwards, than up-
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            wards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2322" xml:space="preserve">ſulpits are placed high above the people: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2323" xml:space="preserve">And when the </s>
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