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A28284	The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England.; Gentili, Robert, 1590-1654?	1671 (1671)	Wing B306; ESTC R31268	123,856	142

Discontinuation is very strong so in Liquors where this kind of motion seems to cease or at the least languish yet there is not an absolute pivation of it but it plainly remains in them as in the lowest degree and shews it self in and by many experiences as in Bubbles and the roundness of drops in the smallest threads of running Gutters and in the holding together and drawing out as it were in threads of glutinous bodies and the like But this desire is most plainly apparant if we attempt a discontinuation by lesser fractions For in Morters after Contusion is made to a certain degree the Pestel operates no more Water will not get in at the smallest chinks or crevises and Air it self notwithstanding the subtileness of its body cannot suddenly pass thorow the pores of solid Vessels but by a long insinuation Let the sixt Motion be the motion which we call a Motion to Lucre or Gain Or the motion of Indigency or Want Which is that by which bodies when they converse amongst others which are meerly Heterogeneal and as it were enemies if they can but get a conveniency or means to avoid those Heterogeneals and apply themselves to such as have more affinity with them though even they do not thorowly agree with them they presently embrace them and make choice of them and seem to make some gain thereby from whence we have taken the word as being in want and Indigency of such bodies As for example Gold or any other metal beaten out to leaf delights not in having Air about it therefore if it can come at some thick and tangible body as a finger paper or the like it sticks presently and can hardly be gotten off Likewise Paper and Cloth and the like do not well agree with the air which is inserted and commixed in their Pores wherefore they willingly drink in water and drive out the Air. Likewise Sugar or a Spung put into Water or Wine though part of them stand up and be far above the Water or Wine yet by little and little and by degrees they draw the Water or Wine upwards From whence is taken an excellent rule for the opening and solution of bodies for laying aside Corrosives and strong waters which open a way for themselves if there might be found a proportionate and more agreeing and consenting solid body than that wherewith it is as it were through necessity mixed presently the body slacks and opens it self and receives the other within it excluding and putting away the first Neither doth this Motion to Lucre onely operate or hath power upon the feeling For the Operation of Amber of which Gilbertus and others since him have raised such Fables is no other but the Appetite of the body raised and excited by some light frication or rubbing which doth not very well tolerate the Air but had rather have some other tangible thing if so be there be any near unto it Let the seventh Motion be the Motion which we call of greater Congregation by which bodies are carried to the masses of the Connaturals as ponderous things to the Globe of the earth light things towards the circumference of the heavens This the Schools upon slight contemplation have specified by the name of Natural Motion Because there was nothing of ab extra or externally to be seen which should cause that Motion therefore they thought in-bred and placed firmly in it Or peradventure because it doth not cease Which is no marvail for the heaven and the earth are always ready and at hand whereas contrariwise the causes and beginnings of most of the other Motions are sometimes absent sometimes present Therefore because this doth intermit but always meets the other when they intermit they made this perpetual and proper and the rest as it were but acquired But this Motion is indeed weak and dull enough as succumbing and yielding unless there be a greater mass of body to other Motions as long as they are in operation And though this Motion hath so filled mens thoughts that it hath almost hidden all other Motions yet it is but little that men know of it but are plunged in many errors about it Let the eight Motion be the Motion of the lesser Congregation by which the Homogeneal parts in any body separate themselves from the Heterogeneal and come together amongst themselves by which also whole bodies through similitude of substance embrace and nourish one another and sometimes are congregated and drawn together from some distance as when the cream after some pause of time swims upon the top of the Milk the Lees and Tartar settle at the bottom of the Wine For these things are not done by the motion of Gravity and Levity that some parts swim at the top and others go to the bottom but through the desire of the Homogeneals of comming together and uniting themselves And this motion differs from the motion of Indigency in two things The first that in the Motion of Indigency there is a greater provocation of the Malignant and contrary nature but in this motion if there be no obstacles or tyes the parts are united by friendship though the Alien Nature be absent which moveth strife The second thing wherein they differ is that the union is more strict and as it were with more delight For in the other so that the adverse body be shunned those bodies which have no great affinity one with the other do notwithstanding concur But in this substances come together which are knit one to another as it were by a twin-like substance and are in a manner made up into one And this motion is in all compounded bodies and would easily be seen in each one of them if it were not tyed up and restrained by other appetites and necessities of bodies which disturb this Coition and going together And this motion is most commonly tyed and bound up three ways By the numness of bodies The curb of the predominant body And the external motion As for the numness of Bodies it is most certain that there is in all Tangible bodies a kind of sloth either more or less and a kind of aversion from local Motion so that unless they be excited and stirred up thereunto they had rather remain in that state wherein they are than seek after a better And this Numness or Dulness or Sloth is to be shaken off by a threefold help Either by heat or by an eminent Vertue of some allyed body or by a lively and powerful motion And first as concerning the assistance of heat from thence it proceeds that heat is defined to be that separates Heterogeneals and brings Homogeneals together Which definition of the Peripateticks Gilbertus did most deservingly deride saying that it is as if a man should define a man to be it which soweth Corn and planteth Vineyards which is but only a Definition by effects and those also particular ones And this Definition is yet further to be blamed For those effects whatsoever

living things which Motion doth temper together all the Motions of the rest of the parts as long as it self is in vigor and force It is likewise to be found in other bodies in a certain inferiour degree as hath been said of blood and urines which are not dissolved till the spirit which restrained and mixed their parts was let forth or suffocated Neither is this Motion altogether proper to Spirits though Spirits are predominant in most bodies by reason of their quick and penetrating Motion But in bodies which are more condensed and are not filled with a lively and vigorous spirit such as is in Quick-silver and Vitriol the thicker parts are predominant so that unless this curb and yoke be some way shaken off we must not hope for any new transformation of such bodies Let the seventeenth Motion be the Spontaneal or Willing Motion of Rotation or wheeling by which bodies that delight in Motion and are well placed do enjoy themselves and follow one another and not any thing else seeking as it were their own embraces For bodies seem either to move without any term or to stand quite still or to be carried to that term where through their own Nature they must either wheel or stand still And those things that are well placed if they enjoy Motion do move circularly namely with an Eternal an Infinite motion Those things which are well placed and are averse from motion do stand quite still Those which are not well placed do move in a direct line as by the shortest path to the company of their connaturals And this motion of Rotation or wheeling admits of seven differences The first of its Center about which the bodies move The second of their Poles upon which they move The third of its circumference or compass according as they are distant from the Center The fourth of their Incitation according as they move either more slowly or more swiftly The fifth of the consecution of their Motion as from East to West or from West to East The sixt of the Declination from the perfect Circle by threads or lines nearer to or further from the Center The seventh of its declination from the perfect circle by the Lines nearer to or further from their Poles The eighth of the further or nearer distance of their Lines one from the other The ninth and last of the variations of the Poles themselves if they be moveable the which doth not belong to Rotation or wheeling unless it be done circularly And this Motion by the common and inveterate opinion is held to be the proper Motion of the Heavens Yet there is a great Question amongst some as well ancient as modern concerning that Motion who have attributed this Rotation or wheeling to the earth But it would be a far more just question or controversie if the thing be not without question namely whether this Motion granted that the Earth doth stand still be contained within the bounds of the heaven or rather descends and communicates it self to the Air and to the Waters But the motion of Rotation in darted things as in Arrows Darts Bullets for Guns and the like we remit altogether to the motion of Liberty Let the eighteenth motion be the motion of Trepidation to which as it is understood by Astronomers we give no great credit But to us who seriously seek out every where the Appetites and Desires of Natural bodies this motion comes in our way and seems it ought to be placed in specie as of a several kind And this motion is as it were of a certain perpetual captivity or bondage namely in which bodies being not altogether well placed according to their Nature nor yet finding themselves altogether ill do trepidate or agitate continually taking no rest as not contented with the state they are in nor yet daring to proceed any further And such a motion is found in the heart and pulses of living Creatures and must of necessity be in all bodies which are in an anxious and doubtful case between commodities and discommodities that being distracted do trie to free themselves and still receive a repulse yet still go on trying Let the nineteenth and last motion be that to which the name of motion scarce belongeth and yet is a meer motion Which motion we may call the motion of lying down or the motion of abhorring of motion By this motion the earth stands in its own frame the extreams of it moving themselves into the middle not to the imaginative Center but to Union By this appetite also all things which are condensed or grown thick in a high degree do abhor motion and all their appetite is not to move and though they be provoked infinitely to move yet as far as they can they preserve their own Nature And if they be forced to motion yet they seem always to endeavour to recover their own estate and rest to move no more And indeed about this they are active enough and do strive swiftly and speedily enough as being impatient of any delay But the Image of this appetite can but partly be discerned because with us by the subagitation and concoction of the Celestials every tangible thing is not only not condensed to the height but is also mixed with some spirit We have therefore now proposed the species or simple Elements of Motions Appetites and Active Vertues which are most universal in Nature neither is there a small part of Natural Knowledg shadowed under these Yet we do not deny but that other species may peradventure be added and that these very Divisions may be transported according to the truer veins of things and be reduced into a smaller number Yet we do not mean this of any abstracted Divisions As who should say that bodies desire either the Preservation or Exaltation or Propagation or Fruition of their own Nature or as if one should say that the motions of things do tend to the Preservation and good either of the Universal as Antitypie or Connexion or of great Universalities as the motion of the greater Congregation or of Rotation and wheeling or of the abhorring of motion or of special Forms as the rest of motions For though these things be true yet unless they be terminated in Matter and Fabrick according to the true lines they are speculative and less profitable In the mean time they will be sufficient and of good use to weigh the Predominances of Virtues and enquire out the Instances of strife For of these motions whereof we have spoken some are altogether invincible some are stronger and bind curb and dispose them Some do shoot out and dart further some do prevent others in time and swiftness some do nourish strengthen enlarge and hasten the other The Motion of Antitypie is altogether Adamantive and Invincible But whether the Motion of Connexion be so or no we yet doubt of For we will not for a certainty affirm whether there be a Vacuity or Coacervation and heaping up or a Permixion

follows Cardinal North. North and by East Med. Maj. North North-East or Aquilo North East and by North or Meses Semi-Card North East North East and by East Med. Maj. East North East or Caecias East and by North. Cardinal East or Subsolanus East by South Med. Maj. East South East or Vulturnus South East by East Semi-Card South East South East and by South Med. Maj. South South East or Phaenicias South and by East Cardinal South South by West Med. Maj. South South West or Libonotus South West and by South Semi Card. South West or Libs South West and by West Med. Maj. West South West or Africus West and by South Cardinal West or Favonius West and by North. Med. Maj. West North West or Corus North West and by West Semi Card. North West North West and by North or Thrascias Med. Maj. North North West or Circius North and by West There are also other Names of winds Apeliotes the East wind Argestes the South West Olympias the North West Scyron the South East Hellespontius the East North East for these we care not Let it suffice that we have given constant and fixed names of winds according to the order and disposition of the regions of the Heavens we do not set much by the Comments of Authors since the Authors themselves have little in them Free Winds To the sixth Article 1 THere is not a Region of the Heaven from whence the wind doth not blow Yea if you divide the Heaven into as many Regions as there be degrees in the Horizon you shall find winds sometimes blowing from every one of them 2. There are some whole Countries where it never rains or at least very seldom but there is no Country where the wind doth not blow and that frequently General Winds To the second Article 1. Concerning general winds Experiments are plain and it is no marvel seeing that especially within the Tropicks we may find places condemned among the Ancients It is certain that to those who sail between the Tropicks in a free and open sea there blows a constant and setled wind which the seamen call a Breeze from East to West This wind is not of so little force but that partly by its own blowing and partly by its guiding the current of the Sea it hindreth Sea-men from coming back again the same way they went to Peru. 2. In our Seas in Europe when it is fair dry weather and no particular winds stirring there blows a soft kind of gale from the East which followeth the Sun 3. Our common Observations do admit that the higher Clouds are for the most part carried from East to West and that it 's so likewise when here below upon the earth either there is a great calm or a contrary wind and if they do not so always it is because sometimes particular winds blow aloft which overwhelm this general wind A Caution If there be any such general wind in order to the motion of the Heaven it is not so firm nor strong but that it gives way to particular winds But it appears most plainly amongst the Tropicks by reason of the larger circles which it makes And likewise it is so when it blows on high for the same cause and by reason of its free course Wherefore if you will take it without the Tropicks and near the earth where it blows most gently and slowly make trial of it in an open and free air in an extream calm and in high places and in a body which is very moveable and in the after-noon for at that time the particular Eastern wind blows more sparingly Injunction Observe diligently the Vains and Weather-cocks upon the tops and Towers of Churches whether in extream calms they stand continually towards the West or not An Indirect Experiment 4. It is certain that here with us in Europe the Eastern wind is drying and sharp the West wind contrariwise moist and nourishing May not this be by reason that it being granted that the Air moves from East to West it must of necessity be that the East wind whose blast goeth the same way must needs disperse and attenuate the Air whereby the Air is made biting and dry but the western wind which blows the contrary way turns the Airs back upon it self and thickens it whereby it becomes more dull and at length moist An Indirect Experiment 5. Consider the Inquisition of the motion and flowing of waters whether they move from East to West for if the two extreams Heaven and Waters delight in this Motion the Air which is in the midst will go near to participate of the same Caution We call the two last Experiments indirect because they do directly shew the thing which we aim at but by consequence which we also gladly admit of when we want direct Experiments Injunction That the Breeze blows plentifully between the Tropicks is most certain the cause is very ambiguous The cause may be because the Air moves according to the Heaven But without the Tropicks almost unperceiveably by reason of the smaller Circles which it makes within the Tropicks manifestly because it makes bigger Circles Another cause may be because all kind of heat dilates and extends the Air and doth not suffer it to be contained in its former place and by the dilation of the Air there must needs be an impulsion of the contiguous Air which produceth this Breeze as the Sun goes forward and that is more evident within the Tropicks where the Sun is more scorching without it is hardly perceived And this seems to be an instance of the Cross or a decisory instance To clear this doubt you may enquire whether the Breeze blow in the night or no for the wheeling of the Air continues also in the night but the heat of the Sun does not 6. But it is most certain that the Breeze doth not blow in the night but in the morning and when the morning is pretty well spent yet that instance doth not determine the Question whether the nightly condensation of the Air especially in those Countrys where the days and nights are not more equal in their length than they are differing in their heat and cold may dull and confound that Natural Motion of the Air which is but weak If the air participates of the motion of the Heaven it does not only follow that the East wind concurs with the motion of the Air and the West wind strives against it but also that the North wind blows as it were from above and the South wind as from below here in our Hemisphere where the Antartick Pole is under ground and the Artick Pole is elevated which hath likewise been observed by the Ancients though staggeringly and obscurely But it agrees very well with our modern Experience because the Breeze which may be a motion of the air is not a full East but a North-East wind Stayed or certain Winds To the third Article Connexion AS in the Inquisition of General winds men