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.
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[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
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[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.
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[5.] TO THE READER
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[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
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[7.] Century II.
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[8.] Century III.
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[9.] Century IV.
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[10.] Century V.
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[11.] Century VI.
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[12.] Century VII.
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[13.] Century VIII.
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[14.] Century IX.
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[15.] Century X.
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[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.
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[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.
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[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
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[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
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[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
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[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
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[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
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[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
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[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
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[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
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[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
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[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
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[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
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[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
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[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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TO THE
READER
HAving had the Honor to be continually with
my Lord, in compiling of this Work; and
to be employed therein, I have thought it not
amiß, (with his Lordſhips good leave and
liking) for the better ſatisfaction of thoſe that
ſhall read it, to make known ſomewhat of his Lordſhips inten-
tions, touching the ordering and publiſhing of the ſame. I
have heard his Lordſhip often ſay, That if he ſhould have
ſerved the glory of his own Name, he had been better not to
have publiſhed this Natural Hiſtory; for it may ſeem an
indigeſted heap of Particulars, and cannot have that luſtre
which Books caſt into Methods, have: But that be reſolved
to prefer the good of Men, and that which might best ſecure
it, before any thing that might have relation to himſelf. And,
he knew well, that there was no other way open to unlooſe Mens
44[Handwritten note 4]55[Handwritten note 5] mindes, being bound; and (as it were) Maleficiate, by the
charms of deceiving Notions and Theories; and thereby
44[Handwritten note 4]55[Handwritten note 5] made impotent for Generation of Works: But onely no where
to depart from the Senſe and clear experience, but to keep cloſe
to it, eſpecially in the beginning. Beſides, this Natural
Hiſtory was a Debt of his, being deſigned and ſet down for
a third Part of the Inſtauration. I have alſo heard his
Lordſhip diſcourſe, That Men (no doubt) will think many
of the Experiments contained in this Collection, to be

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