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A28291 New Atlantis a work unfinished / written by the Right Honourable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1658 (1658) Wing B307; ESTC R21978 31,652 41

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of them These we call Compilers● We have three that bend themselves Looking into the Experiments of their Fellows and cast about how to draw out of them Things of Use and Practice for Mans life and Knowledge as well for Works as for Plain Demonstration of Causes Means of Natural Divinations and the easie and clear Discovery of the Vertues and Parts of Bodies These we call Dowry-men or Bene●actors Then after diverse Meetings and Consults of our whole Number to consider of the former Labours and Collections we have three that take care out of them to Direct New Experiments of a Higher Light more Penetrating into Nature than the Former These we call Lamps We have Three othe●s t●at do Execute the Experiment so Directed and Report them These we call Inoculators Lastly we have Three that raise the former Discoveries by Experiments into Greater Observations Axiomes and Aporismes These we call Interpreters of Nature We have also as you must think Novices and Apprentices that the Succession of the former Employed men do not fail besides a great Number of Servants and Attendants Men and VVomen And this we do also We have Consultations which of the Inventions and Experiences which we have discovered shall be Published and which not And take all an Oath of Secrecy for the concealing of those which we think meet to keep Secret Though some of those we do reveal sometime to the State and some not For our Ordinances and Rites●We have two very Long and Fair Galleries In o●e of these we place Patterns and Samples of all manner of the more Rare and Excellent Inventions In the other we place the Statuaes of all Principal Inventours There we have the Statua of your Columbus that discovered the VVest-Indies Also the Inventour of Ships Your Monk that was the Inventour of Ordinance and of Gunpowder The Inventour of Musick The Inventour of Letters The Inventour of Printing The Inventour of Observations of Astronomy The Inventour o● VVorks in Metall The Inventour of Glasse The Inventour of Silk of the VVorm The Inventour of VVine The Inventour of Corn and Bread The Inventour of Sugars And all these by more certain Tradition than you have Then we have divers Inventours of our Own of Excellent VVorks which since you have not seen it were too long to make Descriptions of them And besides in the right Understanding of those Descriptions you might easily erre For upon every Invention of Value we erect a Statua to the Inventour and give him a Liberal and Honourable Reward These Statuaes are some of Brass some of Marble and Touchstone some of Cedar and other special VVoods gilt and adorned some of Iron some of Silver some of Gold We have certain Hymns and Services which we say daily of Laud and Thanks to God for his Marvellous VVorks And Forms of Prayers imploring his Aide and Blessing for the Illumination of our Labours the end turning them into Good and Holy Uses Lastly we have Circuits or Visits of divers Principal Cities of the Kingdome where as it commeth to passe we do publish such New Profitable Inventions as we think good And we do also declare Natural Divinations of Diseases Plagues Swarms of Hurtfull Creatures Scarcity Tempest Earthquakes Great Inundations Comets Temperature of the Year and divers other things And we give Counsel thereupon what the People shall do for the Prevention and Remedy of them And when He had said this He stood up And I as I had been taught kneeled down and he laid his Right Hand upon my Head and said GOD blesse thee my Son and GOD bless this Relation which I have made I give thee leave to Publish it for the good of other Nations For we hear are in GODS Bosome a Land unknown And so he left me Having assigned a value of about two Thousand Duckets for a Bounty to me and my Fellows For they give great Largesses where they come upon all occasions The rest was not perfected MAGNALIA NATVRAE PRAECIPVE QVOAD VSVS HUMANOS THe Prologation of Life The Restitution of Youth in some Degree The Retardation of Age The Curing of diseases counted Incurable The Mitigation of Pain More Easie and less Loathsome Purgings The Encreasing of Strength and Activity The Encreasing of Ability to suffer Torture or Pain The Altering of Complexions and Fatness and Leanesse The Altering of Statures The Altering of Features The Encreasing and Exalting of the Intellectual Parts Version of Bodies into other Bodies Making of New Species Transplanting of one Species into another Instruments of Destruction as of Warre and Poyson Exhilaration of the Spirits and Putting them in good Disposition Force of the Imagination either upon another Body or upon the Body it self Acceleration of Time in Maturations Acceleration of Time in Clarifications Acceleration of P●trefaction Acceleration of Decoction Acceleration of Germination Making Rich Composts for the Earth Impressions of the Air and raising of Tempests Great Alteration As in Induration Emollition c. Turning Crude and Watry Substances into Oyly and Vnctuous Substances Drawing of New Foods out of Substances not now in Vse Making New Threds for Apparell And New Stuffs Such as are Paper Glass c. Natural Divinations Deceptions of the Senses Greater Pleasures of the Senses Artificial Minerals and Cements FINIS