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

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2663" xml:space="preserve">The like Eccho upon Eccho, but onely with two reports, hath been
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-01" xlink:href="note-0092-01a" xml:space="preserve">250.</note>
            obſerved to be, if you ſtand between a Houſe and a Hill, and lure towards
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            the Hill; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2664" xml:space="preserve">for the Houſe will give a Back Eccho: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2665" xml:space="preserve">One taking it from the
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            other, and the latter the weaker.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2666" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2667" xml:space="preserve">There are certain Letters, that an Eccho will hardly expreſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2668" xml:space="preserve">As S for
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-02" xlink:href="note-0092-02a" xml:space="preserve">251.</note>
            one, eſpecially being principal in a word. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2669" xml:space="preserve">I remember well, that when
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            I went to the Eccho at Pont-Carenton, there was an old Pariſian that took it
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            to be the Work of Spirits, and of good Spirits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2670" xml:space="preserve">For (ſaid he) call Satan,
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            and the Eccho will not deliver back the Devils name: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2671" xml:space="preserve">But will ſay, Vat’en,
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            which is as much in French, as Apage, or Avoid. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2672" xml:space="preserve">And thereby I did hap to
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            finde, that an Eccho would not return S, being but a Hiſſing and an Interior
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            Sound.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2673" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2674" xml:space="preserve">Eccho’s are ſome more ſudden, and chap again as ſoon as the Voice is
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-03" xlink:href="note-0092-03a" xml:space="preserve">252.</note>
            delivered, as hath been partly ſaid; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2675" xml:space="preserve">others are more deliberate, that is, give
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            more ſpace between the Voice and the Eccho, which is cauſed by the Local
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            nearneſs or diſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2676" xml:space="preserve">Some will report a longer train of words,
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            and ſome
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            a ſhorter: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2677" xml:space="preserve">Some more loud (full as loud as the Original, and ſometimes
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            more loud) and ſome weaker and fainter.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2678" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2679" xml:space="preserve">Where Eccho’s come from ſeveral parts, at the ſame diſtance they muſt
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-04" xlink:href="note-0092-04a" xml:space="preserve">253.</note>
            needs make (as it were) a Quire of Eccho’s, and ſo make the Report greater,
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            and even a continued Eccho; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2680" xml:space="preserve">which you ſhall finde in ſome Hills that ſtand
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            encompaſſed, Theatre-like.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2681" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2682" xml:space="preserve">It doth not yet appear, that there is Refraction in Sounds, as well as in
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-05" xlink:href="note-0092-05a" xml:space="preserve">254.</note>
            Species Viſible. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2683" xml:space="preserve">For I do notthink, that if a Sound ſhould paſs through di-
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            vers Mediums, as Air, Cloth, Wood, it would deliver the Sound in a differing
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            place, from that unto which it is deferred; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2684" xml:space="preserve">which is the proper effect of
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            Refraction. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2685" xml:space="preserve">But Majoration, which is alſo the Work of Refraction, appear-
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            eth plainly in Sounds, (as hath been handled at full) but it is not by diverſity
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            of Mediums.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2687" xml:space="preserve">WE have Obiter, for Demonſtrations ſake, uſed in divers Inſtances, the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-06" xlink:href="note-0092-06a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Conſent and
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              Diſſent be-
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              tween Viſibles
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              and Audibles.</note>
            Examples of the Sight, and Things Viſible, to illuſtrate the Nature of
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            Sounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2688" xml:space="preserve">But we think good now to proſecute that Compariſon more
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            fully.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2689" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head33" xml:space="preserve">Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2690" xml:space="preserve">BOth of them ſpred themſelves in Round, and fill a whole Flore or Orb
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-07" xlink:href="note-0092-07a" xml:space="preserve">255.</note>
            unto certain Limits; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2691" xml:space="preserve">and are carried a great way, and do languiſh and
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            leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Objects from the
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            Senſories.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2693" xml:space="preserve">Both of them have the whole Species in every ſmall portion of the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-08" xlink:href="note-0092-08a" xml:space="preserve">256.</note>
            Air or Medium, ſo as the Species do paſs through ſmall Cranies, without
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            confuſion: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2694" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee ordinarily in Levels, as to the Eye; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2695" xml:space="preserve">and in Cranies,
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            or Chinks, as to the Sound.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2697" xml:space="preserve">Both of them are of a ſudden and eaſi e Generation and Delation, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0092-09" xlink:href="note-0092-09a" xml:space="preserve">257.</note>
            likewiſe periſh ſwiftly and ſuddenly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2698" xml:space="preserve">as if y ou remove the Light, or touch
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            the Bodies that give the Sound.</s>
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