the salt-Salt-Water doe neuerthelesse delight more in Fresh Wee see that Salmons and Smelts loue to get into Riuers though it be against the Streame At the Hauen of Constantinople you shall haue great Quantities of Fish that come from the euxine-Euxine-Sea that when they come into the Fresh Water doe inebriate and turne vp their Bellies So as you may take them with your Hand I doubt there hath not beene sufficient Experiment made of Putting sea-Sea-Fish into Fresh Water Ponds and Pooles It is a Thing of great Vse and Pleasure For so you may haue them new at some good distance from the Sea And besides it may be the Fish will eat the pleasanter and may fall to breed And it is said that Colchester Oysters which are put into Pits where the Sea goeth and commeth but yet so that there is a Fresh Water Comming also to them when the Sea voideth become by that meanes Fatter and more Growne The Turkish-Bow giueth a very Forcible Shoot Insomuch as it hath beene knowne that the Arrow hath pierced a Stecle Target or a Peece of Brasse of two Inches thicke But that which is more strange the Arrow if it be Headed with Wood hath beene knowne to pierce thorow a Peece of Wood of eight Inches thicke And it is certaine that wee had in vse at one time for Sea-Fight short Arrowes which they called Sprights without any other Heads saue Wood sharpned which were discharged out of Muskets and would pierce thorow the Sides of Ships where a Bullet would not pierce But this dependeth vpon one of the greatest Secrets in all Nature Which is that Similitude of Substance will cause Attraction where the Body is wholly freed from the Motion of Grauitie For if that were taken away Lead would draw Lead and Gold would draw Gold and Iron would draw Iron without the helpe of the Load-Stone But this same Motion of Weight or Grauitie which is a meere Motion of the Matter and hath no Affinitie with the Forme or Kinde doth kill the other Motion except it selfe be killed by a violent Motion As in these Instances of Arrowes For then the Motion of Attraction by Similitude of Substance beginneth to shew it selfe But wee shall handle this Point of Nature fully in due Place They haue in Turkey and the East certaine Confections which they call Seruetts which are like to Candied Conserues And are made of Sugar and Limons or Sugar and Citrons or Sugar and Violets and some other Flowers And some Mixture of Amber for the more delicate Persons And those they dissolue in Water and thereof make their Drinke because they are forbidden Wine by their Law But I doe much maruell that no Englishman or Dutehman or German doth set vp Brewing in Constantinople Considering they haue such Quantitie of Barley For as so the generall Sort of Men Frugalitie may be the Cause of Drinking Water For that it is no small Sauing to pay nothing for ones Drinke But the better Sort mought well be at the Cost And yet I wonder the lesse at it because I see France Italie or Spaine haue not taken into vse Beere or Ale Which perhaps if they did would better both their Healths and their Complexions It is likely it would be Matter of great Gaine to any that should begin it in Turkey In Bathing in Hot Water Sweat neuerthelesse commeth not in the Parts vnder the Water The Cause is First for that Sweat is a Kinde of Colliquation And that Kinde of Colliquation is not made either by an Ouer-Drie Heat or an Ouer-Moist Heat For Ouer-Moisture doth somewhat extinguish the Heat As wee see that euen Hot Water quencheth Fire And Ouer-Drie Heat shutteth the Pores And therefore Men will sooner Sweat couered before the Sunne or Fire than if they stood Naked And Earthen Bottles filled with Hot Water doe prouoke in Bed a Sweat more daintily than Bricke-bats Hot. Secondly Hot Water doth cause Euaporation from the Skin So as it spendeth the Matter in those Parts vnder the Water before it issueth in Sweat Againe Sweat commeth more plentifully if the Heat be increased by Degrees than if it be greatest at first or equall The Cause is for that the Pores are better opened by a Gentle Heat than by a more Violent And by their opening the Sweat issueth more abundantly And therefore Physitians may doe well when they prouoke Sweat in Bed by Bottles with a Decoction of Sudorisicke Herbs in Hot Water to make two Degrees of Heat in the Bottles And to lay in the Bed the lesse Heated first and after halfe an Houre the more Heated Sweat is Salt in Taste The Cause is for that that Part of the Nourishment which is Fresh and Sweet turneth into Bloud and Flesh And the Sweat is only that Part which is Separate and Excerned Bloud also Raw hath some Saltnesse more than Flesh because the Assimilation into Flesh is not without a little and subtile Excretion from the Bloud Sweat commeth forth more out of the Vpper Parts of the Body than the Lower The Reason is because those Parts are more replenished with Spirits And the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat Besides they are lesse Fleshy and Sweat issueth chiefly out of the Parts that are lesse Fleshy and more Dry As the Forehead and Breast Men Sweat more in Sleepe than Waking And yet Sleepe doth rather stay other Fluxions than cause them As Rheumes Loosenesse of the Body c. The Cause is for that in Sleepe the Heat and Spirits doe naturally moue inwards and there rest But when they are collected once within the Heat becommeth more Violent and Irritate And thereby expelleth Sweat Cold Sweats are many times Mortall and neere Death And alwayes ill and Suspected As in Great Feares Hypochondricall Passions c. The Cause is for that Cold Sweats come by a Relaxation or Forsaking of the Spirits wherby the Moisture of the Body which Heat did keepe firme in the Parts seuereth and issueth out In those Diseases which cannot be discharged by Sweat Sweat is ill and rather to be stayed As in Diseases of the Lungs and Fluxes of the Belly But in those Diseases which are expelled by Sweat it easeth and lightneth As in Agues Pestilences c. The Cause is for that Sweat in the Latter Sort is partly Criticall and sendeth forth the Matter that offendeth But in the Former it either proceedeth from the Labour of the Spirits which sheweth them Oppressed Or from Motion of Consent when Nature not able to expell the Disease where it is seated moueth to an Expulsion indifferent ouer all the Body The Nature of the Glo-wormexs is hitherto not well obserued Thus much we see That they breed chiefly in the Hottest Moneths of Summer And that they breed not in Champaigne but in Bushes and Hedges Wherby it may be conceiued that the Spirit of them is very fine and not to be refined but by Summer Heats And againe that by reason of the Finenesse
saw him weare in the Chariott but in stead of his Gowne he had on him a Mantle with a Cape of the same fine Black fastned about him When we came in as we were taught we bowed Lowe at our first Entrance And when we were come neare his Chaire he stood vp holding forth his Hand vngloued and in Posture of Blessing And we euery one of vs stooped downe and kissed the Hemme of his Tippett That done the rest departed and I remayned Then hee warned the Pages forth of the Roome and caused mee to sit downe beside him and spake to me thus in the Spanish Tongue GOD blesse thee my Sonne I will giue thee the greatest Iewell I haue For I will impart vnto thee for the Loue of GOD and Men a Relation of the true State of Salomons House Sonne to make you know the true state of Salomons House I will keepe this order First I will set forth vnto you the End of our Foundation Secondly the Preparations and Instruments we haue for our Workes Thirdly the seuerall Employments and Functions wherto our Fellowes are assigned And fourthly the Ordinances and Rites which we obserue The End of our Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes and Secrett Motions of Things And the Enlarging of the bounds of Humane Empire to the Effecting of all Things possible The Preparations and Instruments are these We haue large and deepe Causes of seuerall Depths The deepest are sunke 600. Fathome And some of them are digged and made vnder great Hills and Mountaines So that if you reckon together the Depth of the Hill and the Depth of the Caue they are some of them aboue three Miles deepe For wee finde that the Depth of a Hill and the Depth of a Caue from the Flat is the same Thing Both remote alike from the Sunn and Heauens Beames and from the Open Aire These Caues we call the Lower Region And wee vse them for all Coagulations Indurations Refrigerations and Conseruations of Bodies We use them likewise for the Imitation of Naturall Mines And the Producing also of New Artificiall Mettalls by Compositions and Materialls which we vse and lay ther for many years Wee vse them also sometimes which may seeme strange for Curing of some Diseases and for Prolongation of Life in some Hermits that choose to liue ther well accommodated of all things necessarie and indeed liue very long By whom also we learne many things We haue Burialls in seuerall Earths wher we put diuerse Cements as the Chineses doe their Porcellane But we haue them in greater Varietie and some of them more fine We haue also great variety of Composts and Soiles for the Making of the Earth Fruitfull We haue High Towers The Highest about halfe a Mile in Heigth And some of them likewise set vpon High Mountaines So that the Vantage of the Hill with the Tower is in the highest of them three Miles at least And these Places wee call the Vpper Region Accounting the Aire betweene the High Places and the Lowe as a Middle Region VVee vse these Towers according to their seuerall Heights and Situations for Insolation Refrigeration Conseruation And for the View of diuers Meteors As Windes Raine Snow Haile And some of the Fiery Meteors also And vpon them in some Places are Dwellings of Hermits whom wee visit sometimes and instruct what to obserue We haue great Lakes both Salt and Fresh wherof we haue vse for the Fish and Fowle We vse them also for Burialls of some Naturall Bodies For we finde a Difference in Things buried in Earth or in Aire below the Earth and things buried Water VVe haue also Pooles of which some doe straine Fresh Water out of Salt And others by Art doe turne Fresh Water into Salt VVe haue also some Rocks in the Midst of the Sea And some Bayes vpon the Shore for some Works wherin is required the Ayre and Vapour of the Sea VVe haue likewise Violent Streames and Cataracts which serue vs for many Motions And likewise Engines for Multiplying and Enforcing of VVindes to set also on going diuerse Motions VVe haue also a Number of Artificiall VVels and Fountaines made in Imitation of the Naturall Sources and Baths As tincted vpon Vitrioll Sulphur Steele Brasse Lead Nitre and other Mineralls And againe wee haue little VVells for Infusions of many Things wher the VVaters take the Vertue quicker and better then in Vessels or Basins And amongst them we haue a VVater which wee call VVater of Paradise being by that we doe to it made very Soueraigne for Health and Prolongation of Life We haue also Great and Spatious Houses wher we imitate and demonstrate Meteors As Snow Haile Raine some Artificiall Raines of Bodies and not of VVater Thunders Lightnings Also Generations of Bodies in Aire As Froggs Flies and diuerse Others We haue also certaine Chambers which wee call Chambers of Health wher wee qualifie the Aire as we thinke good and proper for the Cure of diuerse Diseases and Preseruation of Health We haue also faire and large Baths of seuerall Mixtures for the Cure of Diseases and the Restoring of Mans Body from Arefaction And Others for the Confirming of it in Strength of Sinnewes Vitall Parts and the very Iuyce and Substance of the Body We haue also large and various Orchards and Gardens Wherin we do not so much respect Beauty as Variety of Ground and Soyle proper for diuerse Trees and Herbs And some very spatious wher Trees and Berries are set wherof we make diuerse Kinds of Drinks besides the Vine-yards In these wee practise likewise all Conclusions of Grafting and Inoculating as well of VVilde-Trees as Fruit-Trees which produceth many Effects And we make by Art in the same Orchards and Gardens Trees and Flowers to come earlier or later then their Seasons And to come vp and beare more speedily then by their Naturall Course they doe We make them also by Art greater much then their Nature And their Fruit greater and sweeter and of differing Tast Smell Colour and Figure from their Nature And many of them we so Order as they become of Medicinall Vse Wee haue also Meanes to make diuerse Plants rise by Mixtures of Earths without Seedes And likewise to make diuerse New Plants differing from the Vulgar and to make one Tree or Plant turne into another We haue also Parks and Enclosures of all Sorts of Beasts and Birds which wee vse not onely for View or Rarenesse but likewise for Dissections and Trialls That therby we may take light what may be wrought vpon the Body of Man Wherin we finde many strange Effects As Continuing Life in them though diuerse Parts which you acount Vitall be perished and taken forth Resussitating of some that seeme Dead in Appearance And the like We try also all Poysons and other Medicines vpon them as well of Chyrurgery as Phisicke By Art likewise we make them Greater or Taller then their Kinde is And contrary-wise Dwarfe them and stay their Grouth Wee make them more
which in their Originall are Entire Wee represent and imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters and the Voices and Notes of Beasts and Birds Wee haue certaine Helps which sett to the Eare doe further the Hearing greatly Wee haue also diuerse Strange and Artificiall Eccho's Reflecting the Voice many times and as it were Tossing it And some that giue back the Voice Lowder then it came some Shriller and some Deeper Yea some rendring the Voice Differing in the Letters or Articulate Sound from that they receyue Wee haue also meanes to conuey Sounds in Trunks and Pipes in strange Lines and Distances Wee haue also Perfume-Houses wherwith we ioyne also Practises of Tast. VVe Multiply Smells which may seeme strange VVe Imitate Smells making all Smells to breath out of other Mixtures then those that giue them VVe make diuerse Imitations of Tast likewise â— so that they will deceyue any Mans Tast. And in this House wee containe also a Confiture-House wher wee make all Sweet-Meats Dry and Moist And diuerse pleasant Wines Milks Broaths and Sallets farr in greater variety then you haue Wee haue also Engine-Houses wher are prepared Engines and Instruments for all Sorts of Motions Ther we imitate and practise to make Swifter Motions then any you haue either out of your Musketts or any Engine that you haue And to Make them and Multiply them more Easily and with Small Force by VVheeles and other Meanes And to make them Stronger and more Violent then yours are Exceeding your greatest Cannons and Basilisks Wee represent also Ordnance and Instruments of VVarr and Engines of all Kindes And likewise New Mixtures and Compositions of Gun-Powder Wilde-Fires burning in Water and Vnquenchable Also Fire-workes of all Variety both for Pleasure and Vse Wee imitate also Flights of Birds Wee haue some Degrees of Flying in the Ayre Wee haue Shipps and Boates for Going vnder Water and Brooking of Seas Also Swimming-Girdles and Supporters Wee haue diuers curious Clocks And other like Motions of Returne And some Perpetuall Motions Wee imitate also Motions of Liuing Creatures by Images of Men Beasts Birds Fishes and Serpents Wee haue also a great Number of other Various Motions strange for Equality Finenesse and Subtilty Wee haue also a Mathematicall House wher are represented all Instruments as well of Geometry as Astronomy exquisitely made Wee haue also Houses of Deceits of the Senses wher we represent all manner of Feates of Iugling False Apparitions Impostures and Illusions And their Fallaces And surely you will easily beleeue that wee that haue so many Things truely Naturall which induce Admiration could in a World of Particulars deceiue the Senses if wee would disguise those Things and labour to make them seeme more Miraculous But we doe hate all Impostures and Lies Insomuch as wee haue seuerely forbidden it to all our Fellowes vnder paine of Ignominy and Eines that they doe not shew any Naturall worke or Thing Adorned or Swelling but onely Pure as it is and without all Affectation of Strangenesse These are my Sonne the Riches of Salomons House For the seuerall Employments and Offices of our Fellowes Wee haue Twelue that Sayle into Forraine Countries vnder the Names of other Nations for our owne wee conceale Who bring vs the Bookes and Abstracts and Patternes of Experiments of all other Parts These wee call Merchants of Light Wee haue Three that Collect the Experiments which are in all Bookes These wee call Depredatours Wee haue Three that Collect the Experiments of all Mechanicall Arts And also of Liberall Sciences And also of Practises which are not Brought into Arts. These we call Mystery-Men Wee haue Three that try New Experiments such as themselues thinke good These wee call Pioners or Miners Wee haue Three that Drawe the Experiments of the Former Foure into Titles and Tables to giue the better light for the drawing of Obseruations and Axiomes out of them These wee call Compilers Wee haue Three that bend themselues Looking into the Experiments of their Fellowes and cast about how to draw out of them Things of Vse and Practise for Mans life and Knowledge as well for VVorkes as for Plaine Demonstration of Causes Meanes of Naturall Diuinations and the easie and cleare Discouery of the Vertues and Parts of Bodies These wee call Dowry-men or Benefactours Then after diuerse Meetings and Consults of our whole Number to consider of the former Labours and Collections wee haue Three that take care out of them to Direct New Experiments of a Higher Light more Penetrating into Nature then the Former These wee call Lamps Wee haue Three others that doe Execute the Experiments so Directed and Report them These wee call Inoculatours Lastly wee haue Three that raise the former Discoueries by Experiments into Greater Obseruations Axiomes and Aphorismes These wee call Interpreters of Nature Wee haue also as you must thinke Nouices and Apprentices that the Succession of the former Employed Men doe not faile Besides a great Number of Seruants and Attendants Men and Women And this we doe also We haue Consultations which of the Inuentions and Experiences which wee haue discouered shall be Published and which not And take all an Oath of Secrecy for the Concealing of those which wee thinke fitt to keepe Secrett Though some of those we doe reuease sometimes to the State and some not For our Ordinances and Rites Wee haue two very Long and Faire Galleries In one of these wee place Patternes and Samples of all manner of the more Rare and Excellent Inuentions In the other wee place the Statuas of all Principall Inuentours These wee haue the Statua of your Columbus that discouered the West-Indies Also the Inuentour of Shipps Your Monke that was the Inuentour of Ordnance and of Gunpowder The Inuentour of Musicke The Inuentour of Letters The Inuentour of Printing The Inuentour of Obseruations of Astronomy The Inuentour of Works in Mettall The Inuentour of Glasse The Inuentour of Silke of the VVorne The Inuentour of VVine The Inuentour of Corne and Bread The Inuentour of Sugars And all these by more certaine Tradition then you haue Then haue we diuerse Inuentours of our Owne of Excellent VVorkes Which since you haue not seene it were too long to make Descriptions of them And besides in the right Vnderstanding of those Descriptions you might easily erre For vpon euery Inuention of Valew wee erect a Statua to the Inuentour and giue him a Liberall and Honourable Reward These Statua's are some of Brasse some of Marble and Touchstone some of Cedar and other speciall VVoods guilt and adorned some of Iron some of Siluer Some of Gold Wee haue certaine Hymnes and Seruices which wee say dayly of Laud and Thanks to GOD for his Marueillous VVorks And Formes of Prayers imploring his Aide and Blessing for the Illumination of our Labours and the Turning of them into Good and Holy Vses Lastly wee haue Circuites or Visits of diuers Principall Citties of the Kingdome wher as it commeth to passe we doe publish such New Profitable
gathered together into the fashion of a Purse and broken vpon the Fore-head or Backe of the Hand as Children vse The Cause giuen of Sound that it should be an Elision of the Aire wherby if they meane any thing they meane a Cutting or Diuiding or else an Attenuating of the Aire is but a Terme of Ignorance And the Motion is but a Catch of the Wit vpon a few Instances As the Manner is in the Philosophy Receiued And it is common with Men that if they haue gotten a Pretty Expression by a Word of Art that Expression goeth currant though it be empty of Matter This Conceit of Elision appeareth most manifestly to befalse in that the Sound of a Bell String or the like continueth melting some time after the Percussion But ceaseth straight-waies if the Bell or String be touched and stayed wheras if it were the Elision of the Aire that made the Sound it could not be that the Touch of the Bell or String should extinguish so suddenly that Motion caused by the Elision of the Aire This appeareth yet more manifestly by Chiming with a Hammer vpon the Out-side of a Bell For the Sound will be according to the inward Concaue of the Bell whereas the Elision or Attenuation of the Aire cannot be but onely betweene the Hammer and the Out-side of the Bell So againe if it were an Elision a broad Hammer and a Bodkin strucke vpon Metall would giue a diuers Tone As well as a diuers Loudnesse But they doe not so For though the Sound of the one be Louder and of the other Softer yet the Tone is the same Besides in Eccho's wherof some are as loud as the Originall Voice there is no new Elision but a Repercussion onely But that which conuinceth it most of all is that Sounds are generated where there is no Aire at all But these and the like Conceits when Men haue cleared their vnderstanding by the light of Experience will scatter and breake vp like a Mist. It is certaine that Sound is not produced at the first but with some Locall Motion of the Aire or Flame or some other Medium Nor yet without some Resistance either in the Aire or the Body Percussed For if there be a meere Yeelding or Cession it produceth no Sound As hath beene said And therin Sounds differ from Light and Colours which passe thorow the Aire or other Bodies without any Locall Motion of the Aire either at the first or after But you must attentiuely distinguish betweene the Locall Motion of the Aire which is but Vehiculum Caussae A Carrier of the Sounds and the Sounds themselues Conueighed in the Aire For as to the former we see manifestly that no Sound is produced no not by Aire it selfe against other Aire as in Organs c. but with a perceptible Blast of the Aire And with some Resistance of the Aire strucken For euen all Speech which is one of the gentlest Motions of Aire is with Expulsion of a little Breath And all Pipes haue a Blast as well as a Sound We see also manifestly that Sounds are carried with Wind And therefore Sounds will be heard further with the Wind than against the Wind And likewise doe rise and fall with the Intension or Remission of the Wind. But for the Impression of the Sound it is quite another Thing And is vtterly without any Locall Motion of the Aire Perceptible And in that resembleth the Species visible For after a Man hath lured or a Bell is rung we cannot discerne any Perceptible Motion at all in the Aire a long as the Sound goeth but only at the first Neither doth the Wind as far as it carrieth a Voice with the Motion therof confound any of the Delicate and Articulate Figurations of the Aire in Variety of Words And if a Man speake a good loudnesse against the Flame of a Candle it will not make it tremble much though most when those Letters are pronounced which contract the Mouth As F S V and some others But Gentle Breathing or Blowing without speaking will moue the Candle far more And it is the more probable that Sound is without any Locall Motion of the Aire because as it differeth from the Sight in that it needeth a Locall Motion of the Aire at first So it paralleleth in so many other things with the Sight and Radiation of Things visible Which without all question induce no Locall Motion in the Aire as hath beene said Neuerthelesse it is true that vpon the Noise of Thunder and great Ordnance Glasse windowes will shake and Fishes are thought to be frayed with the Motion caused by Noise vpon the water But these Effects are from the Locall Motion of the Aire which is a Concomitant of the Sound as hath beene said and not from the Sound It hath beene anciently reported and is still receiued that Extreme Applanses and Shouting of People assembled in great Multitudes haue so rarified and broken the Aire that Birds flying ouer haue fallen downe the Aire being not able to support them And it is beleeued by some that Great Ringing of Bells in populous Cities hath chased away Thunder and also dissipated Pestilent Aire All which may be also from the Concussion of the Aire and not from the Sound A very great Sound neare hand hath strucken many Dease And at the Instant they haue found as it were the breaking of a Skin or Parchment in their Eare And my Selfe standing neare one that Lured loud and shrill had suddenly an Offence as if somewhat had broken or beene dislocated in my Eare And immediately after a loud Ringing Not an ordinary Singing or Hissing but far louder and differing so as I feared some Deafenesse But after some halfe Quarter of an Houre it vanished This Effect may be truly referred vnto the Sound For as is commonly receiued an ouer-potent Obiect doth destroy the Sense And Spirituall Species both Visible and Audible will worke vpon the Sensories though they moue not any other Body In Delation of Sounds the Enclosure of them preserueth them and causeth them to be heard further And wee finde in Roules of Parchment or Trunckes the Mouth being laid to the one end of the Rowle of Parchment or Truncke and the Eare to the other the Sound is heard much further than in the Open Aire The Cause is for that the Sound spendeth and is dissipated in the Open Aire But in such Concaues it is conserued and contracted So also in a Peece of Ordnance if you speak in the Touch-hole and another lay his Eare to the Mouth of the Peece the Sound passeth and is farre better heard than in the Open Aire It is further to be considered how it proueth and worketh when the Sound is not enclosed all the Length of his Way but passeth partly through open Aire As where you speake some distance from a Truncke or where the Eare is some distance from the Truncke at the other End Or where both Mouth and Eare are distant
not take vpon vs now to Enumerate them all The Insecta haue beene noted by the Ancients to feed little But this hath not beene diligently obserued For Grashoppers eat vp the Greene of whole Countries And Silke-wormes deuoure Leaues swiftly And Ants make gret Prouision It is true that Creatures that Sleepe and rest much Eat little As Dormise and Bats c. They are all without Bloud Which may be for that the Iuyce of their Bodies is almost all one Not Bloud and Flesh and Skin and Bone as in Perfect Creatures The Integrall Parts haue Extreme Variety but the Similar Parts little It is true that they haue some of them a Disphragme and an Intestine And they haue all Skins Which in most of the Insecta are cast often They are not generally of long Life Yet Bees haue beene knowne to liue seuen yeares And Snakes are thought the rather for the Casting of their Spoils to liue till they be Old And Eeles which many times breed of Putrefaction will liue and grow very long And those that Enterchange from Wormes to Flyes in the Summer and from Flyes to Wormes in the Winter haue beene kept in Boxes oure kyears at the least Yet there are certain Flyes that are called Ephemera that liue but a day The Cause is the Exility of the Spirit Or perhaps the Absence of the Sunne For that if they were brought in or kept close they might liue longer Many of the Insecta as Butterflies and other Flies reuiue easily when they seeme dead being brought to the Sunne or Fire The Cause whereof is the Diffusion of the Vitall Spirit and the Easie Dilating of it by a little Heat They stirre a good while after their Heads are off or that they be cut in Pecces Which is caused also for that their Vitall Spirits are more diffused thorow-out all their Parts and lesse confined to Organs than in Perfect Creatures The Insecta haue Voluntary Motion and therefore Imagination And whereas some of the Ancients haue said that their Motion is Indeterminate and their Imagination Indefinite it is negligently obserued For Arts goe right forwards to their Hills And Bees doe admirably know the way from a Flowry Heath two or three Miles off to their Hiues It may be Gnats and Flyes haue their Imagination more mutable and giddy as Small Birds likewise haue It is said by some of the Ancients that they haue onely the Sense of Feeling which is manifestly vntrue For if they goe forth-right to a Place they must needs haue Sight Besides they delight more in one Flower or Herbe than in another and therefore haue Taste And Bees are called with Sound vpon Brasse and therefore they haue Hearing Which sheweth likewise that though their Spirit be diffused yet there is a Seat of their Senses in their Head Other Obseruations concerning the Insecta together with the Enumeration of them wee referre to that place where wee meane to handle the Title of Animal's in generall A Man Leapeth better with Weights in his Hands than without The Cause is for that the Weight if it be proportionable strengthneth the Sinneues by Contracting them For otherwise where no Contraction is needfull Weight hindereth As wee see in Horse-Races Men are curious to fore-see that there be not the least Weight vpon the one Horse more than vpon the other In Leaping with Weights the Armes are first cast backwards and then forwards with so much the greater Force For the Hands goe backward before they take their Raise Quaere if the contrary Motion of the Spirits immediately before the Motion wee intend doth not cause the Spirits as it were to breake forth with more Force As Breath also drawne and kept in commeth forth more forcibly And in Casting of any Thing the Armes to make a greater Swing are first cast backward Of Musicall Tones and Vnequall Sounds wee haue spoken before But touching the Pleasure and Displeasure of the Senses not so fully Harsh Sounds as of a Sawe when it is sharpened Grinding of one Stone against another Squeaking or Skriching Noise make a Shiuering or Horrour in the Body and set the Teeth on edge The Cause is for that the Obiects of the Eare doe affect the Spirits immediately most with Pleasure and Offence We see there is no Colour that affecteth the Eye much with Displeasure There be Sights that are Horrible because they excite the Memory of Things that are Odious or Fearefull But the same Things Painted doe little affect As for Smells Tastes and Touches they be Things that doe affect by a Participation or Impulsion of the Body of the Obiect So it is Sound alone that doth immediately and incorporeally affect most This is most manifest in Musicke and Concords and Discords in Musicke For all Sounds whether they be sharpe or Flat if they be Sweet haue a Roundnesse and Equality And if they be Harsh are Vnequall For a Discord it selfe is but a Harshnesse of Diners Sounds Meeting It is true that Inequality not Stayed vpon but Passing is rather an Encrease of Sweetnesse As in the Purling of a Wreathed String And in the Rancity of a Trumpet And in the Nightinghale-Pipe of a Regall And in a Discord straight falling vpon a Concord But if you stay vpon it it is Offensiue And therefore there bee these three Degrees of Pleasing and Displeasing in Sounds Sweet Sounds Discords and Harsh Sounds which we call by diuers Names as Skriching or Grating such as wee now speake of As for the Setting of the Teeth on Edge we see plainly what an Intercourse there is betweene the Teeth and the Organ of the Hearing by the Taking of the End of a Bow betweene the Teeth and Striking vpon the String NATVRALL HISTORIE VIII Century THere be Mineralls and Fossiles in great Varietie But of Veines of Earth Medicinall but few The Chiefe are Terra Lemnia Terra Sigillata communis and Bolus Arminus Whereof Terra Lemnia is the Chiefe The Vertues of them are for Curing of Wounds Stanching of Bloud Stopping of Flaxes and Rheumes and Arresting the Spreading of Poison Infection and Putrefaction And they haue of all other Simples the Perfectest and Purest Qualitie of Drying with little or no Mixture of any other Qualitie Yet it is true that the Bole-Arminicke is the most Cold of them And that Terra Lemnia is the most Hot For which Cause the Island Lemnos where it is digged was in the Old Fabulous Ages consecrated to Vulcan About the Bottome of the Straights are gathered great Quantities of Sponges which are gathered from the sides of Rocks being as it were a large but tough Mosse It is the more to be noted because that there be but few Substances Plant-like that grow deepe within the Sea For they are gathered sometimes fifteene Fathome deepe And when they are laid on Shoare they seeme to be of great Bulke But crushed together will be transported in a very small Roome It seemeth that Fish that are vsed to
wholesome Drinke and very Cleare They vse also in Wales a Compound Drinke of Mead with Herbs and Spices But meane-while it were good in recompence of that wee haue lost in Honey there were brought in vse a Sugar Meadâ— for so wee may call it though without any Mixture at all of Honey And to brew it and keepe it stale as they vse Mead For certainly though it would not be so Abster siue and Opening and Solutiue a Drinke as Mead yet it will be more gratefull to the Stomach and more Lenitiue and fit to be vsed in Sharpe Diseases For wee see that the vse of Sugar in Beere and Ale hath good Effects in such Cases It is reported by the Ancients that there was a Kinde of Steele in some places which would polish almost as white and bright as Siluer And that there was in India a Kinde of Brasse which being polished could scarce be discerned from Gold This was in the Naturall Vre But I am doubtfull whether Men haue sufficiently refined Metals which we count Base As whether Iron Brasse and Tinne be refined to the Heighth But when they come to such a Finenesse as serueth the ordinary vse they trie no further There haue beene found certaine Cements vnder Earth that are very Soft And yet taken forth into the Sunne harden as Hard as Marble There are also ordinary Quarries in Sommerset-Shire which in the Quarry cut soft to any Bignesse and in the Building proue firme and hard Liuing Creatures generally doe change their Haire with Age turning to be Gray and White As is seene in Men though some Earlier some Later In Horses that are Dappled and turne White In Old Squirrels that turne Grisly And many Others So doe some Birds As Cygnets from Gray turne White Hawkes from Browne turne more White And some Birds there be that vpon their Moulting doe turne Colour As Robin-Redbrests after their Moulting grow to be Red againe by degrees So doe Gold-Finches vpon the Head The Cause is for that Moisture doth chiefly colour Haire and Feathers And Drinesse turneth them Gray and White Now Haire in Age waxeth Drier So doe Feathers As for Feathers after Moulting they are Young Feathers and so all one as the Feathers of Young Birds So the Beard is younger than the Haire of the Head and doth for the most part wax Hoare later Out of this Ground a Man may deuise the Meanes of Altering the Colour of Birds and the Retardation of Heare-Haires But of this see the fifth Experiment The Difference betweene Male and Female in some Creatures is not to be discerned otherwise than in the Parts of Generation As in Horses and Mares Dogs and Bitches Doues He and She and others But some differ in Magnitude and that diuersly For in most the Male is the greater As in Man Pheasants Peacocks Turkey's and the like And in some few as in Hawkes the Female Some differ in the Haire and Feathers both in the Quantitie Crispation and Colours of them As He-Lions are Miâ—sute and haue great Maines The She 's are smooth like Cats Bulls are more Crispe vpon the Fore-head than Cowes The Peacocke and Pheasant-Cocke and Gold-Finch-Cocke haue glorious and fine Colours The Henn's haue not Generally the Hees in Birds haue the fairest Feathers Some differ in diuers Features As Bucks haue Hornes Doe's none Rammes haue more wreathed Hornes than Ewes Cocks haue great Combes and Spurres Henns little or none Boares haue great Fangs Sowes much lesse The Turky-Cocke hath great and Swelling Gills the Hen hath lesse Men haue generally Deeper and Stronger Voices than Women Some differ in Facultie As the Cocks amongst Singing Birds are the best Singers The Chiefe Cause of all these no doubt is for that the Males haue more Strength of Heat than the Females Which appeareth manifestly in this that all young Creatures Males are like Females And so are Eunuchs and Gelt Creatures of all kinds liker Females Now Heat causeth Greatnesse of Growth generally where there is Moisture enough to worke vpon But if there be found in any Creature which is seene rarely an Ouer-great Heat in proportion to the Moisture in them the Female is the greater As in Hawkes and Sparrowes And if the Heat be ballanced with the Moisture then there is no Difference to be seene betweene Male and Female As in the Instances of Horses and Dogs Wee see also that the Hornes of Oxen and Cowes for the most part are Larger than the Bulls which is caused by abundance of Moisture which in the Hornes of the Bull failethâ— Againe Heat causeth Pilosuy and Crispation And so likewise Beards in Men. It also expelleth finer Moisture which Want of Heat cannot Expell And that is the Cause of the Beauty and Variety of Feathers Againe Heat doth put forth many Excreseences and much Solide Matter which Want of Heat cannot do And this is the Cause of Hornes and of the Greatnesse of them And of the Greatnesse of the Combes and Spurres of Cocks Gills of Turky-Cocks and Fangs of Boares Heat also dilateth the Pipes and Organs which causeth the Deepnesse of the Voice Againe Heat refineth the Spirits and that causeth the Cock-Singing Bird to Excell the Hen. There be Fishes greater than any Beasts As the Whale is farre greater than the Elephant And Beasts are generally greater than Birds For Fishes the Cause may be that because they Liue not in the Aire they haue not their Moisture drawne and Soaked by the Aire and Sun-Beames Also they rest alwaies in a manner and are supported by the Water whereas Motion and Labour doe consuine As for the Greatnesse of Beasts more than of Birds it is caused for that Beasts stay Longer time in the Wombe than Birds and there Nourish and Grow Whereas in Birds after the Egge Lay'd there is no further Growth or Nourishment from the Female For the Sitting doth Vinifie and not Nourish We haue partly touched before the Meanes of Producing Fruits without Coares or Stones And this we adde further that the Cause must be Abundance of Moisture For that the Coare and Stone are made of a Dry Sapâ— And we see that it is possible to make a Tree put forth onely in Blossome without Fruit As in Cherries with Double Flowers Much more into Fruit without Stone or Coares It is reported that a Cions of an Apple grafted vpon a Coloâ—â—â— Stalke sendeth forth a great Apple without a Coare It is not vnlikely that if the Inward Pith of a Tree were taken out so that the Iuyce came onely by the Barke it would worke the Effect For it hath beene obserued that in Pollards if the Water get in on the Top and they become Hollow they put forth the more We adde also that it is deliuered for certaine by some that if the Cions be grafted the Small End downwards it will make Fruit haue little or no Coares and Stones Tobacco is a thing of great Price if it be in request For
such as they are a little till true Axiomes may be more fully discouered I haue heard his Lordship say also that one great Reason why he would not put these Particulars into any exact Method though he that looketh attentiuely into them shall finde that they haue a secret Order was because hee conceiued that other men would now thinke that they could doe the like And so goe on with a further Collection which if the Method had been Exact many would haue despaired to attaine by Imitation As for his Lordships loue of Order I can referr any Man to his Lordships Latine Booke De Augmentis Scientiarum which if my Iudgment be any thing is written in the Exactest Order that I know any Writing to bee I will conclude with an vsuall Speech of his Lordships That this Worke of his Naturall History is the World as GOD made it and not as Men haue made it For that it hath nothing of Imagination W Rawley NATVRALL HISTORIE I. Century DIGG a Pitt vpon the Sea shore somewhat aboue the High-water Marke and sincke it as deepe as the low-Low-Water marke And as the Tide commeth in it will fill with Water Fresh and Potable This is commonly practized vpon the Coast of Barbary where other fresh Water is wanting And CAESAR knew this well when he was besieged in Alexandria For by Digging of Pitts in the Sea shoare hee did frustrate the Laborious Workes of the Enemies which had turned the Sea-Water vpon the Wells of Alexandria And so saued his Army being then in Desperation But Caesar mistooke the Cause For he thought that all Sea-Sandes had Naturall Springs of Fresh Water But it is plaine that it is the Sea-Water because the Pitt filleth according to the Measure of the Tide And the Sea-water passing or Strayning through the Sandes leaueth the Saltnesse I remember to haue Read that Triall hath beene made of Salt Water passed through Earth through Tenn Vessells one within an other and yet it hath not lost his Saltnesse as to become potable But the same Man saith that by the Relation of Another Salt Water drained through twenty Vessells hath become Fresh This Experiment seemeth to crosse that other of Pitts made by the Sea side And yet but in part if it be true that twentie Repetitions doe the Effect But it is worth the Note how poore the Imitations of Nature are in Common course of Experiments except they be led by great Iudgement and some good Light of Axiomes For first ther is no small difference betweene a Passage of Water through twenty small Vessells And through such a distance as betweene the Low water and High water Marke Secondly there is a great difference betweene Earth and Sand. For all Earth hath in it a kinde of Nitrous Salt from which Sand is more free And besides Earth doth not straine the Water so finely as Sand doth But ther is a Third Point that I suspect as much or more then the other Two And that is that in the Experiment of Transmission of the Sea-water into the Pitts the Water riseth But in the Experiment of Transmission of the Water through the Vessells it falleth Now certaine it is that the Salter Part of Water once Salted throughout goeth to the Bottome And therfore no meruaile if the Draining of Water by descent doth not make it fresh Besides I doe somewhat doubt that the very Dashing of the Water that commeth from the Sea is more proper to strike of the Salt part then wher the Water slideth of her owne Motion It seemeth Percolation or Transmission which is commonly called Straining is a good kinde of Separation Not onely of Thicke from Thin and Grosse from Fine But of more subtile Natures And varieth according to the Bodie through which the Transmission is made As if through a wollen Bagg the Liquour leaueth the Fatnesse If through Sand the Saltnesse c. They speake of Seuering Wine from Water passing it through Iuy wood or through other the like porous Body But Non Constat The Gumm of Trees which wee see to be commonly shining and cleare is but a fine Passage or Straining of the Iuice of the Tree through the Wood and Bark And in like manner Cornish Diamonds and Rock Rubies which are yet more resplendent then Gumms are the fine Exudations of Stone Aristotle giueth the Cause vainely why the Feathers of Birdes are of more liuely Colours then the Haires of Beastes for no Beast hath any fine Azure or Carnation or Greene Haire He saith It is because Birds are more in the Beames of the Sunn then Beasts But that is manifestly vntrue For Cattle are more in the Sun then Birds that liue commonly in the Woods or in some Couert The true Cause is that the Excrementious Moisture of liuing Creatures which maketh as well the Feathers in Birds as the Haire in Beasts passeth in Birds through a finer and more delicate Strainer then it doth in Beastes For Feathers passe through Quills And Haire through Skin The Clarifying of Liquors by Adhesion is an Inward Percolation And is effected when some Cleauing Body is Mixed and Agitated with the Liquours wherby the grosser Part of the Liquor sticks to that Cleauing Body And so the finer Parts are freed from the Grosser So the Apothecaries clarify their Sirrupes by whites of Eggs beaten with the Iuices which they would clarify which Whites of Eggs gather all the Dreggs and grosser Parts of the Iuyce to them And after the Sirrupe being sett on the Fire the whites of Egges themselues harden and are taken forth So Ippocrasse is clarified by mixing with Milke And stirring it about And then passing it through a Wollen Bagge which they call Hippocrates Sleeue And the Cleauing Nature of the Milke draweth the Powder of the Spices and Grosser parts of the Liquour to it And in the passage they stick vpon the Woollen Bagge The Clarifying of Water is an Experiment tending to Health besides the pleasure of the Eye when Water is Crystaline It is effected by casting in and placing Pebbles at the Head of a Current that the Water may straine through them It may be Percolation doth not onely cause Clearenesse and Splendour but Sweetnes of Sauour For that also followeth as well as Clearenes when the Finer Parts are seuered from the Grosser So it is found that the Sweates of Men that haue much Heat and exercise much and haue cleane Bodies and fine Skins doe smell sweet As was said of Alexander And we see commonly that Gumms haue sweet Odours TAke a Glasse and put Water into it and wett your Finger and draw it round about the Lipp of the Glasse pressing it somewhat hard And after you haue drawne it some few times about it will make the Water friske and sprinckle vp in a fine Dew This Instance doth excellently Demonstrate the Force of Compression in a Solid Body For whensoeuer a Solid Body as Wood Stone Mettall c. is pressed ther is
White Glistering Berry And it is a Plant vtterly differing from the Plant vpon which it groweth Two things therfore may be certainly set downe First that Super-fatation must be by Abundance of Sap in the Bough that putteth it forth Secondly that that Sap must be such as the Tree doth excerne and cannot affimilate For else it would goe into a Bough And besides it seemeth to be more Fat and Vnctuous than the Ordinary Sap of the Tree Both by the Berry which is Clammy And by that it continueth greene Winter and Summer which the Tree doth not This Experiment of Misseltoe may giue Light to other Practises Therefore Triall would be made by Ripping of the Bough of a Crab-Tree in the Barke And Watring of the Wound euery Day with Warme Water Dunged to see if it would bring forth Misseltoe or any such like Thing But it were yet more likely to try it with some other Watring or Anointing that were not so Naturall to the Tree as Water is As Oyle or Barme of Drinke c. So they be such Things as kill not the Bough It were good to try what Plants would put forth if they be forbidden to put forth their Naturall Boughes Poll therefore a Tree and couer it some thicknesse with Clay on the Top And see what it will put forth I suppose it will put forth Roots For so will a Cions being turned downe into Clay Therefore in this Experiment also the Tree would be closed with somewhat that is not so Naturall to the Plant as Clay is Try it with Leather or Cloth or Painting so it be not hurtfull to the Tree And it is certaine that a Brake hath beene knowne to grow out of a Pollard A Man may count the Prickles of Trees to be a kinde of Excrescence For they will neuer be Boughes nor beare Leaues The Plants that haue Prickles are Thornes blacke and white Brier Rose Limon-Trees Crab-Trees Goose-Berry Berbery These haue it in the Bough The Plants that haue Prickles in the Leafe are Holly Iuniper Whin-bush Thistle Nettles also haue a small Venemous Prickle So hath Borrage a small prickle but harmelesse The Cause must be Hasty Putting forth Want of Moisture And the Closenesse of the Barke For the Haste of the Spirit to put forth and the Want of Nourishment to put forth a Bough and the Closenesse of the Barke cause Prickles in Boughes And therefore they are euer like a Pyramis for that the Moisture spendeth after a little Putting forth And for Prickles in Leaues they come also of Putting forth more Iuyce into the Leafe than can spread in the Leafe smooth And therefore the Leaues otherwise are Rough as Borrage and Nettles are As for the Leaues of Holly they are Smooth but neuer Plaine but as it were with Folds for the same Cause There be also Plants that though they haue no Prickles yet they haue a Kinde of Downy or Veluet Rine vpon their Leaues As Rose Campion Stock-Gilly-Flowers Colts-Foot which Downe or Nap commeth of a Subtill Spirit in a Soft or Fat Substance For it is certaine that both Stock-Gilly-Flowers and Rose-Campions stamped haue beene applied with successe to the Wrests of those that haue had Tertian or Quartan Agues And the Vapour of Colts-Foot hath a Sanatiue vertue towards the Lungs And the Leafe also is Healing in Surgery Another Kinde of Excrescence is an Exudation of Plants ioyned with Putrefaction As we see in Oake-Apples which are found chiefly vpon the Leaues of Oakes And the like vpon Willowes And Countrey People haue a kinde of Prediction that if the Oake-Apple broken be full of Wormes it is a Signe of a Pestilent Yeare Which is a likely Thing because they grow of Corruption There is also vpon Sweet or other Brier a fine Tuse or Brush of Mosse of diuers Colours Which if you cut you shall euer finde full of little white Wormes It is certaine that Earth taken out of the Foundations of Vaults and Houses and Bottomes of Wells and then put into Pots will put forth Sundry Kindes of Herbs But some Time is required for the Germination For if it be taken but from a Fathome deepe it will put forth the First Yeare If much deeper not till after a Yeare or Two The Nature of the Plants growing out of Earth so taken vp doth follow the Nature of the Mould it selfe As if the Mould be Soft and Fine it putteth forth Soft Herbs As Grasse Plantine and the like if the Earth be Harder and Courser it putteth forth Herbs more Rough as Thistles Firres c. It is Common Experience that where Alleyes are close Grauelled the Earth putteth forth the first yeare Knot-grasse and after Spire-grasse The Cause is for that the Hard Grauell or Pebble at the first Laying will not suffer the Grasse to come forth vpright but turneth it to finde his way where it can But after that the Earth is somewhat loosened at the Top the Ordinary Grasse commeth vp It is reported that Earth being taken out of Shady and Watry Woods some depth and Potted will put forth Herbs of a Fat and Iuycy Substance As Penny-wort Purslane Hausleeke Penny-royall c. The Water also doth send forth Plants that haue no Roots fixed in the Bottome But they are lesse Perfect Plants being almost but Leaues and those Small ones Such is that we call Duck-Weed Which hath a Leafe no bigger than a Thyme-Leafe but of a fresher Greene and putteth forth a little String into the Water farre from the Bottome As for the Water-Lilly it hath a Root in the Ground And so haue a Number of other Herbs that grow in Ponds It is reported by some of the Ancients and some Moderne Teftimony likewife that there be some Plants that grow vpon the Top of the Sea Being supposed to grow of some Concretion of Slime from the Water where the Sunne beateth hot and where the Sea stirreth little As for Alga Marina Sea-weed and Eryngium Sea-Thistle both haue Roots but the Sea-weed vnder the Water the Sea-Thistle but vpon the Shore The Ancients haue noted that there are some Herbs that grow out of Snow laid vp close together and Putrified And that they are all Bitter And they name one specially Flomus which wee call Moth-Mullein It is certaine that Wormes are found in Snow commonly like Earth-Wormes And therefore it is not vnlike that it may likewise put forth Plants The Ancients haue affirmed that there are some Herbs that grow out of Stone Which may be for that it is certain that Toads haue been found in the Middle of a Free-Stone We see also that Flints lying aboue Ground gather Mosse And Wall-Flowers and some other Flowers grow vpon Walls But whether vpon the Maine Bricke or Stone or whether out of the Lime or Chinckes is not well obserued For Elders and Ashes haue beene seene to grow out of Steeples But they manifestly grow out of Clefts In so much as when they grow big they will disioyne the Stone
Timber-House where the Walls and other Parts haue Columnes and Beames But the Roofe is in the better Sort of Houses all Tile or Lead or Stone As for Birds they haue Three other Hard Substances proper to them The Bill which is of like Matter with the Teeth For no Birds haue Teeth The Shell of the Egge And their Quills For as for their Spurre it is but a Naile But no Liuing-Creatures that haue Shells very hard As Oysters Cockles Mussles Scallops Crabs Lobsters Cra-fish Shrimps and especially the Tortoise haue Bones within them but onely little Gristles Bones after full Growth continue at a Stay And so doth the Skull Hornes in some Creatures are cast and renued Teeth stand at a Stay except their Wearing As for Nailes they grow continually And Bills and Beakes will ouer-grow and sometimes be cast as in Eagles and Parrots Most of the Hard Substances fly to the Extremes of the Body As Skull Hornes Teeth Nailes and Beakes Onely the Bones are more Inward and clad with Flesh. As for the Entrailes they are all without Bones Saue that a Bone is sometimes found in the Heart of a Stag And it may be in some other Creature The Skull hath Braines as a kinde of Marrow within it The Back-Bone hath one Kinde of Marrow which hath an Affinity with the Braine And other Bones of the Body haue another The Iaw-Bones haue no Marrow Seuered but a little Pulpe of Marrow diffused Teeth likewise are thought to haue a kind of Marrow diffused which causeth the Sense and Paine But it is rather Sinnew For Marrow hath no Sense No more than Bloud Horne is alike throughout And so is the Naile None other of the Hard Substances haue Sense but the Teeth And the Teeth haue Sense not onely of Paine but of Cold. But we will leaue the Enquiries of other Hard Substances vnto their seuerall Places And now enquire onely of the Teeth The Teeth are in Men of three Kindes Sharpe as the Fore-Teeth Broad as the Back-Teeth which we call the Molar-Teeth or Grinders And Pointed-Teeth or Canine which are betweene both But there haue beene some Men that haue had their Teeth vndiuided as of one whole Bone with some little Marke in the Place of the Diuision As Pyrrhus had Some Creatures haue Ouer-long or Out-growing Teeth which wee call Fangs or Tuskes As Boares Pikes Salmons and Dogs though lesse Some Liuing Creatures haue Teeth against Teeth As Men and Horses And some haue Teeth especially their Master-Teeth indented one within Another like Sawes As Lions And so againe haue Dogs Some Fishes haue diuers Rowes of Teeth in the Roofes of their Mouthes As Pikes Salmons Trouts c. And many more in salt-Salt-Waters Snakes and other Serpents haue Venomous Teeth which are sometimes mistaken for their Sting No Beast that hath Hornes hath Vpper Teeth And no Beast that hath Teeth aboue wanteth them below But yet if they be of the same kinde it followeth not that if the Hard Matter goeth not into Vpper Teeth it will goe into Hornes Not yet â—â— conuerse For Doe's that haue no Hornes haue no Vpper Teeth Horses haue at three yeares old a Tooth put forth which they call the Colts Tooth And at foure yeares old there commeth the Mark-Tooth which hath a Hole as big as you may lay a Pease within it And that weareth shorter and shorter euery yeare Till that at eight yeares old the Tooth is smooth and the Hole gone And then they say That the Marke is out of the Horses Mouth The Teeth of Men breed first when the Childe is about a yeare and halfe old And then they cast them and new come about seuen yeares old But diuers haue Backward-Teeth come forth at Twenty yea some at Thirty and Forty Quare of the manner of the Comming of them forth They tell a Tale of the old Countesse of Desmond who liued till she was seuen-score yeares old that she did Dentire twice or thrice Casting her old Teeth and others Comming in their Place Teeth are much hurt by Sweet-Meats And by Painting with Mercury And by Things Ouer-hot And by Things Ouer-cold And by Rheumes And the Paine of the Teeth is one of the sharpest of Paines Concerning Teeth those Things are to be Considered 1. The Preseruing of them 2. The Keeping of them White 3. The Drawing of them with Least Paine 4. The Staying and Easing of the Tooth-ach 5. The Binding in of Artificiall Teeth where haue beene strucken out 6. And last of all that Great One of Restoring Teeth in Age. The Instances that giue any likelihood of Restoring Teeth in Age are The Late Comming of Teeth in some And the Renewing of the Beakes in Birds which are Commateriall with Teeth Quare therefore more particularly how that commeth And againe the Renewing of Hornes But yet that hath not beene knowne to haue beene prouoked by Art Therfore let Triall be made whether Hornes may be procured to grow in Beasts that are not Horned and how And whether they may be procured to come Larger than vsuall As to make an Oxe or a Deere haue a Greater Head of Hornes And whether the Head of a Deere that by Age is more Spitted may be brought againe to be more Branched For those Trialls and the like will shew whether by Art such Hard Matter can be called and prouoked It may be tryed also whether Birds may not haue some thing done to them when they are Young wherby they may be made to haue Greater or Longer Bills Or Greater and Longer Tallons And whether Children may not haue some Wash or Something to make their Teeth Better and Stronger Corall is in vse as an Helpe to the Teeth of Children Some Liuing Creatures generate but at certaine Seasons of the Yeare As Deere Sheepe Wilde Conneyes c. And most Sorts of Birds and Fishes Others at any time of the Yeare as Men And all Domesticke Creatures As Horses Hogges Dogges Cats c. The Cause of Generation at all Seasons seemeth to be Fulnesse For Generation is from Redundance This Fulnesse ariseth from two Causes Either from the Nature of the Creature if it be Hot and Moist and Sanguine Or from Plenty of Food For the first Men Horses Dogges c. which breed at all Seasons are full of Heat and Moisture Dones are the fullest of Heat and Moisture amongst Birds and therefore breed often The Tame Doue almost continually But Deere are a Melancholy Dry Creature as appeareth by their Fearefulnesse and the Hardnesse of their Flesh. Sheepe are a Cold Creature as appeareth by their Mildnesse and for that they seldome Drinke Most sort of Birds are of a dry Substance in comparison of Beasts Fishes are cold For the second Cause Fulnesse of Food Men Kine Swine Dogs c. seed full And we see that those Creatures which being Wilde generate seldome being Tame generate often Which is from Warmth and Fulnesse of Food We finde that the Time of Going to Rut of Deore
getteth into a Body Whereas in the first Putting vp it commeth in little Portions We spake of the Ashes that Coales cast off And of Grasse and Chaffe carried by the Wind So any Light Thing that moueth when we finde no Wind sheweth a Wind at hand As when Feathers or Downe of Thistles fly to and fro in the Aire For Prognosticks of Weather from Liuing Creatures it is to be noted That Creatures that Liue in the Open Aire Sub Diô must needs haue a Quicker Impression from the Aire than Men that liue most within Doores And especially Birds who liue in the Aire freest and clearest And are aptest by their Voice to tell Tales what they finde And likewise by the Motion of their Flight to expresse the same Water-Fowles as Sea-Gulls More-Hens c. when they flocke and fly together from the Sea towards the Shores And contrariwise Land-Birds as Crowes Swallowes c. when they fly from the Land to the Waters and beat the Waters with their Wings doe fore-shew Raine and Wind. The Cause is Pleasure that both Kindes take in the Moistnesse and Density of the Aire And so desire to be in Motion and vpon the Wing whither soeuer they would otherwise goe For it is no Maruell that Water-Fowle doe ioy most in that Aire which is likest Water And Land-Birds also many of them delight in Bathing and Moist Aire For the same Reason also many Birds doe proine their Feathers And Geese doe gaggle And Crowes seeme to call vpon Raine All which is but the Comfort they seeme to receiue in the Relenting of the Aire The Heron when she foareth high so as sometimes she is seene to passe ouer a Cloud sheweth Winds But Kites flying aloft shew Faire and Dry Weather The Cause may be for that they both mount most into the Aire of that Temper wherein they delight And the Heron being a Water-Fowle taketh pleasure in the Aire that is Condensed And besides being but Heauy of Wing needeth the Helpe of the Grosser Aire But the Kite affecteth not so much the Grossenesse of the Aire as the Cold and Freshnesse thereof For being a Bird of Prey and therefore Hot she delighteth in the Fresh Aire And many times flyeth against the Wind As Trouts and Salmons swimme against the Streame And yet it is true also that all Birds finde an Ease in the depth of the Aire As Swimmers doe in a Deepe Water And therefore when they are aloft they can vphold themselues with their Wings Spred scarce mouing them Fishes when they play towards the Top of the Water doe commonly foretell Raine The Cause is for that a Fish hating the Dry will not approach the Aire till it groweth Moist And when it is Dry will fly it and Swimme Lower Beasts doe take Comfort generally in a Moist Aire And it maketh them eat their Meat better And therefore Sheepe will get vp betimes in the Morning to feed against Raine And Cattell and Deere and Conneyes will feed hard before Raine And a Heifer will put vp his Nose and snuffe in the Aire against Raine The Trifoile against Raine swelleth in the Stalke and so standeth more vpright For by Wet Stalkes doe erect and Leaues bow downe I here is a Small Red Flower in the Stubble-Fields which Country People call the Wincopipe Which if it open in the Morning you may be sure of a faire Day to follow Euen in Men Aches and Hurts and Cornes doe engrieue either towards Raine or towards Frost For the One maketh the Humours more to Abound And the Other maketh them Sharper So we see both Extremes bring the Gout Wormes Vermine c. doe fore-shew likewise Raine For Earth-wormes will come forth and Moules will cast vp more and Fleas bite more against Raine Solide Bodies likewise fore-shew Raine As Stones and Wainscot when they sweat And Boxes and Peggs of Wood when they Draw and Wind hard Though the Former be but from an Outward Cause For that the Stone or Wainscot turneth and beateth backe the Aire against it selfe But the latter is an Inward Swelling of the Body of the Wood it selfe Apetite is moued chiefly by Things that are Cold and Dry The Cause is for that Cold is a Kinde of Indigence of Nature and calleth vpon Supply And so is Drinesse And therefore all Soure Things as Vinegar Iuyce of Limons Oyle of Vitrioll c. prouoke Appetite And the Disease which they call Appetitus Caninus consisteth in the Matter of an Acide and Glassy Flegme in the Mouth of the Stomach Appetite is also moued by Soure Things For that Soure Things induce a Contraction in the Nerues placed in the Mouth of the Stomach Which is a great Cause of Appetite As for the Cause why Onions and Salt and Pepper in Baked Meats moue Appetite it is by Vellication of those Nerues For Motion whetteth As for Worme-Wood Oliues Capers and others of that kinde which participate of Bitternesse they moue Appetite by Abstersion So as there be foure Principall Causes of Appetite The Refrigeration of the Stomach ioyned with some Drinesse Contraction Vellication And Abstersion Besides Hunger which is an Emptinesse And yet Ouer Fasting doth many times cause the Appetite to cease For that Want of Meat maketh the Stomach draw Humours And such Humours as are Light and Cholericke which quench Appetite most It hath beene obserued by the Ancients that where a Raine-Bow seemeth no hang ouer or to touch there breatheth forth a Sweet Smell The Cause is for that this happeneth but in certaine Matters which haue in themselues some Sweetnesse Which the Gentle Dew of the Raine-Bow doth draw forth And the like doe Safe Showers For they also make the Ground Sweet But none are so delicate as the Dew of the Rain-bow where it falleth It may be also that the Water it selfe bath some Sweetnesse For the Raine-Bow consisteth of a Gloâ—â—eration of Small Drops which cannot possibly fall but from the Aire that is very Low And therefore may hold the very Sweetnesse of the Herbs and Flowers as a Distilled Water For Raine and other Dew that fall from high cannot preserue the Smell being dissipated in the drawing vp Neither doe we know whether some Water it selfe may not haue some degree of Sweetnesse It is true that wee finde it sensibly in no Poole Riuer nor Fountaine But good Earth newly turned vp hath a Freshnesse and good Sent Which water if it be not too Equall For Equall Obiects neuer moue the Sense may also haue Certaine it is that Bay-Salt which is but a kinde of Water Congealed will sometimes smell like Violets To Sweet Smells Heat is requisite to Concoct the Matter And some Moisture to Spread the Breath of them For Heat we see that Woods and Spices are more Odorate in the Hot Countries than in the Cold For Moisture we see that Things too much Dried lose their Sweetnesse And Flowers growing smell better in a Morning or Euening than at Noone Some Sweet Smells are
So Curious Painting in Small Volumes and Reading of Small Letters doe hurt the Eye by Contraction It hath beene obserued that in Anger the Eyes wax Red And in Blushing not the Eyes but the Eares and the Parts behinde them The Cause is for that in Anger the Spirits ascend and wax Eager Which is most easily seene in the Eyes because they are Translucide Though withall it maketh both the Cheekes and the Gills Red But in Blushing it is true the Spirits ascend likewise to Succour both the Eyes and the Face which are the Parts that labour But then they are repulsed by the Eyes for that the Eyes in Shame doe put backe the Spirits that ascend to them as vnwilling to looke abroad For no Men in that Passion doth looke strongly but Deiectedly And that Repulsion from the Eyes Diuerteth the Spirits and Heat more to the Eares and the Parts by them The Obiects of the Sight may cause a great Pleasure and Delight in the Spirits but no Paine or great Offence Except it be by Memory as hath beene said The Glimpses and Beames of Diamonds that strike the Eye Indian Feathers that haue glorious Colours The Comming into a Faire Garden The Comming into a Faire Roome richly furnished A Beautifull Person And the like doe delight and exhilarate the Spirits much The Reason why it holdeth not in the Offence is for that the Sight is the most Spirituall of the Senses whereby it hath no Obiect Grosse enough to offend it But the Cause chiefly is for that there be no Actiue Obiects to offend the Eye For Harmonicall Sounds and Discordant Sounds are both Actiue and Positiue So are Sweet Smels and Stinks So are Bitter and Sweet in Tastes So are Ouer-Hot and Ouer-Cold in Touch But Blacknesse and Darknesse are indeed but Priuatiues And therefore haue little or no Actiuitie Somewhat they doe Contristate but very little Water of the Sea or otherwise looketh Blacker when it is moued and Whiter when it resteth The Cause is for that by meanes of the Motion the Beames of light passe not Straight and therefore must be darkened whereas when it resteth the Beames doe passe Straight Besides Splendour hath a Degree of Whitenesse Especially if there be a little Repercussion For a Looking-Glasse with the Steele behinde looketh Whiter than Glasse Simple This Experiment deserueth to be driuen further in Trying by what Meanes Motion may hinder Sight Shell-Fish haue beene by some of the Ancients compared and sorted with the Insecta But I see no reason why they should For they haue Male and Female as other Fish haue Neither are they bred of Putrefaction Especially such as doe Moue Neuerthelesse it is certaine that Oisters and Cockles and Mussles which Moue not haue no discriminate Sex Quare in what time and how they are bred It seemeth that Shells of Oisters are bred where none were before A 〈◊〉 tried that the great Horse-Mussle with the fine shell that breedeth in Ponds hath bred within thirty yeares But then which is strange it hath beene tried that they doe not only Gape and Shut as the Oisters doe but Remone from one Place to Another The Senses are alike Strong both on the Right Side and on the Left But the Limmes on the Right Side are Stronger The Cause may be for that the Braine which is the Instrument of Sense is alike on both Sides But Motion and Habilities of Mouing are somewhat holpen from the Liner which lieth on the Right Side It may be also for that the Senses are put in Exercise indifferently on both Sides from the Time of our Birth But the Limmes are vsed most on the Right Side whereby Custome helpeth For wee see that some are Left-Handed Which are such as haue vsed the Left-Hand most Frictions make the Parts more Fleshie and Full As wee see both in Men And in Carrying of Horses c. The Cause is for that they draw greater Quantitie of Spirits and Blond to the Parts And againe because they draw the Aliment more forcibly from within And againe because they relax the Pores and so make better Passage for the Spirits Blond and Aliment Lastly because they dissipate and disgest any Inutile or Excrementitious Moisture which lieth in the Flesh All which helpe Assimilation Frictions also doe more Fâ—ll and Impinguate the Body than Exercise The Cause is for that in Frictions the Inward Parts are at rest Which in Exercise are beaten many times too much And for the same Reason as we haue noted heretofore Gally-Slaues are Fat and Fleshie because they stirre the Limmes more and the Inward Parts lesse All Globes afarre off appeare Flat The Cause is for that Distance being a Secundary Obiect of Sight is not otherwise discerned than by more or lesse Light which Disparitie when it cannot be discerned all seemeth One As it is generally in Obiects not distinctly discerned For so Letters if they be so farre off as they cannot be discerned shew but as a Duskish Paper And all Engrauings and Embossings afarre off appeare Plaine The Vtmost Parts of Shadowes seeme euer to Tremble The Cause is for that the little Moats which wee see in the Sunne doe euer Stirre though there be no Wind And therefore those Mouing in the Meeting of the Light and the Shadow from the Light to the Shadow and from the Shadow to the Light doe shew the Shadow to Moue because the Medium Moueth Shallow and Narrow Seas Breake more than Deepe and Large The Cause is for that the Impulsion being the same in Both Where there is great Quantitie of â—â—â— and likewise Space Enough there the Water Rowleth and Moueth both more Slowly and with a Sloper Rise and Fall But where there is lesse Water and lesse Space and the Water dasheth more against the Bottome there it moueth more Swiftly and more in Precipice For in the Breaking of the Wanes there is euer a Precipice It hath beene obserued by the Ancients that Salt-Water Boyled or Boyled and Cooled againe is more Potable than of it selfe Raw And yet the Taste of Salt in Distillations by Fire riseth not For the Distilled Water will be Fresh The Cause may be for that the Salt Part of the Water doth partly rise into a Kinde of Scumme on the Top And partly goeth into a Sediment in the Bottome And so is rather a Separation than an Euaporation But it is too grosse to rise into a Vapour And so is a Bitter Taste likewise For Simple Distilled Waters of Wormewood and the like are not Bitter It hath beene set downe before that Pits vpon the Sea-Shoare turne into Fresh Water by Percolation of the Salt through the Sand But it is further noted by some of the Ancients that in some Places of Affricke after a time the Water in such Pits will become Brackish againe The Cause is for that after a time the very Sands thorow which the Salt-Water passeth become Salt And so the
1. ibid. Of Bodies Sulphureous and Mercuriall Exp. 5. pag. 95 Of the Chameleon Exp. 1. pag. 96 Of Subterrany Fires Exp. 1. pag. 97 Of Nitrous Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of Congealing of Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of Congealing Water into Crystall Exp. 1. ibid. Of Preseruing the Smell and Colour in Rose-Leaues Exp. 1. pag. 98 Of the Lasting of Flame Exp. 10. ibid. Of Infusions or Burialls of diuers Bodies in Earth Exp. 5. pag. 101 Of the Affects of Mens Bodies from seuerall Winds Exp. 1. pag. 102 Of Winter and Summer Sicknesses Exp. 1. ibid. Of Pestilentiall Yeares Exp. 1. ibid. Of Epidemicall Diseases Exp. 1. ibid. Of Preseruation of Liquours in Wells or deepe Vaults Exp. 1. ibid. Of Stutting Exp. 1. pag. 103 Of Sweet Smells Exp. 4. ibid. Of the Goodnesse and Choice of Waters Exp. 7. pag. 104 Of Temperate Heats vnder the AEquinoctiall Exp. 1. pag. 105 Of the Colouration of Blacke and Tawney Moores Exp. 1. ibid. Of Motion after the instant of Death Exp. 1. pag. 106 Century V. OF Accelerating or Hastening forward Germination Exper. 12. pag. 109 Of Retarding or putting backe Germination Exp. 9. pag. 112 Of Meliorating or making better Fruits and Plants Exp. 55. pag. 114 Of Compound Fruits and Flowers Exp. 3. pag. 122 Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants Exp. 19. pag. 123 Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable Exp. 2. pag. 128 Century VI. OF Curiosities about Fruits and Plants Exp. 17. pag. 131 Of the Degenerating of Plants And of their Transmutation one into another Exp. 14. pag. 135 Of the Proceritie and Lownesse of Plants And of Artificiall Dwarsing them Exp. 5. pag. 138 Of the Ruatments of Plants And of the Excrescences of Plants or Super-Plants Exp. 26. ibid. Of producing Perfect Plants without Seed Exp. 11. pag. 143 Of Forraine Plants Exp. 3. pag. 144 Of the Seasons of seuerall Plants Exp. 6. pag. 145 Of the Lasting of Plants Exp. 5. pag. 146 Of seuerall Figures of Plants Exp. 3. pag. 147 Of some principall Differences in Plants Exp. 4. pag. 148 Of all Manner of Composts and Helps for Ground Exp. 6. pag. 149 Century VII OF the Affinities and Differences betweene Plants and Bodies Inanimate Exp. 6. pag. 153 Of Affinities and Differences betweene Plants and Liuing Creatures And of the Consiners and Participles of Both. Exp. 3. pag. 154 Of Plants Experiments Promiscuous Exp. 67. pag. 155 Of Healing of Wounds Exp. 1. pag. 169 Of Fat diffused in Flesh. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Ripening Drinke speedily Exp. 1. pag. 170 Of Pilositie and Plumage Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Quicknesse of Motion in Birds Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Clearnesse of the Sea the North Wind blowing Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Different Heats of Fire and Boyling Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Qualification of Heat by Moisture Exp. 1. pag. 171 Of Yawning Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Hiccough Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sneezing Exp. 1. pag. 172 Of the Tendernesse of the Teeth Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Tongue Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Mouth out of Taste Exp. 1. ibid. Of some Prognosticks of Pestilentiall Seasons Exp. 1. ibid. Of Speciall Simples for Medicines Exp. 1. ibid. Of Venus Exp. 3. pag. 173 Of the Infecta or Creatures bred of Putrefaction Exp. 3. pag. 174 Of Leaping Exp. 1. pag. 177 Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing and of the other Senses Exp. 1. ibid. Century VIII OF Veines of Earth Medicinall Exp. 1. pag. 181 Of Sponges Exp. 1. ibid. Of sea-Sea-Fish in Fresh Waters Exp. 1. pag. 182 Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance Exp. 1. ibid. Of Certaine Drinks in Turkey Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sweat Exp. 6. pag. 183 Of the Glo-Worme Exp. 1. pag. 184 Of the Impressions vpon the Body from seuerall Passions of the Mind Exp. 10. ibid. Of Drunkennesse Exp. 4. pag. 187 Of the Hurt or Helpe of Wine taken moderately Exp. 1. pag. 188 Of Catterpillers Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Flyes Cantharides Exp. 1. pag. 189 Of Lassitude Exp. 2. ibid. Of Casting the Skin and Shell in some Creatures Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Postures of the Body Exp. 3. pag. 190 Of Pestilentiall Yeares Exp. 1. ibid. Of some Prognosticks of Hard Winters Exp. 1. ibid. Of certaine Medicines that condense and releeue the Spirits Exp. 1. pag. 191 Of paintings of the Body Exp. 1. ibid. Of the vse of Bathing and Annointing Exp. 1. ibid. Of Chamoletting of Paper Exp. 1. pag. 192 Of Cuttle-Inke Exp. 1. ibid. Of Earth increasing in Weight Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sleepe Exp. 3. ibid. Of Teeth and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Liuing Creatures Exp. 11. pag. 193 Of the Generation and Bearing of Liuing Creatures in the Wombe Exp. 3. pag. 195 Of Species Visible Exp. 2. pag. 196 Of Impulsion and Percussion Exp. 3. pag. 197 Of Titillation Exp. 1. pag. 198 Of Scarcity of Raine in AEgypt Exp. 1. ibid. Of Clarification Exp. 1. ibid. Of Plants without Leaues Exp. 1. pag. 199 Of the Materialls of Glasse Exp. 1. ibid. Of Prohibition of Putrefaction and the long Conseruation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Abundance of Nitre in certaine Sea-Shoares Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies borne vp by Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fuell consuminglittle or nothing Exp. 1. ibid. Of Cheape Fuell Exp. 1. pag. 201 Of Gathering of Wind for Freshnesse Exp. 1. ibid. Of Trialls of Aires Exp. 1. ibid. Of Increasing Milke in Milch-Beasts Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sand of the Nature of Glasse Exp. 1. pag. 202 Of the Growth of Corall Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Gathering of Manna Exp. 1. ibid. Of Correcting of Wines Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bitumen one of the Materialls of Wilde-Fire Exp. 1. pag. 203 Of Plaster growing as hard as Marble Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Cure of some Vlcers and Hurts Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Healthfulnesse or Vnhealthfulnesse of the Southerne Wind. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Wounds made with Brasse and with Iron Exp. 1. ibid. Of Mortification by Cold. Exp. 1. pag. 204 Of Weight Exp. 1. ibid. Of Super-Natation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Flying of Vnequall Bodies in the Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of Water that it may be the Medium of Sounds Exp. 1. pag. 205 Of the Flight of the Spirits vpon odious Obiects Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Super-Reflexion of Eccho's Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Force of Imagination imitating that of the Sense Exp. 1. pag. 206 Of Preseruation of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metalls Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Drowning the more base Metall in the more Pretious Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fixation of Bodies Exp. 1. pag. 207 Of the Restlesse Nature of Things in Themselues and their Desire to Change Exp. 1. ibid. Century IX OF Perception in Bodies Insensible tending to Naturall Diuination and Subtill Trialls Exp. 30. pag. 211 Of the Causes of Appetite in the Stomach Exp. 1. pag. 217 Of Sweetnesse of Odour from the Rain-Bow Exp. 1. ibid. Of Sweet Smells Exp. 1. pag. 218 Of the Corporeall Substance of Smells Exp. 1. ibid. Of Fetide and Fragrant Odours Exp. 1. ibid. Of the
Causes of Putrefaction Exp. 1. pag. 220 Of Bodies vnperfectly Mixt. Exp. 1. ibid. Of Concoction and Crudity Exp. 1. ibid. Of Alterations which may be called Maiors Exp. 1. pag. 221 Of Bodies Liquesiable and Not Liquesiable Exp. 1. pag. 222 Of Bodies Fragile and Tough Exp. 1. ibid. Of the two Kindes of Pneumaticalls in Bodies Exp. 1. pag. 223 Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies Hard and Soft Exp. 1. ibid. Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile Exp. 1. pag. 224 Of Seuerall Passions of Matter and Characters of Bodies Exp. 1. ibid. Of Induration by Sympathy Exp. 1. pag. 225 Of Honey and Sugar Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Finer fort of Base Metalls Exp. 1. ibid. Of certaine Cements and Quarries Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Altering of Colours in Haires and Feathers Exp. 1. pag. 226 Of the Differences of Liuing Creatures Male and Female Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Comparatiue Magnitude of Liuing Creatures Exp. 1. pag. 227 Of Producing Fruit without Coare or Stone Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Melioration of Tobacco Exp. 1. ibid. Of Seuerall Heats working the same Effects Exp. 1. pag. 228 Of Swelling and Dilatation in Boiling Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Dulcoration of Fruits Exp. 1. ibid. Of Flesh Edible and not Edible Exp. 1. pag. 229 Of the Salamander Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Cotrary Operations of Time vpon Fruits and Liquours Exp. 1. pag. 230 Of Blowes and Bruises Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Orris Root Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Compression of Liquours Exp. 1. ibid. Of the working of Water vpon Aire Contiguous Exp. 1. pag. 231 Of the Nature of Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Eyes and sight Exp. 7. ibid. Of the Colour of the Sea or other Water Exp. 1. pag. 233 Of Shell-fish Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Right Side and the Left Exp. 1. ibid. Of Frictions Exp. 1. ibid. Of Globes appearing flat at distance Exp. 1. pag. 234 Of Shadowes Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Rowling and Breaking of the Seat Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Dulcoration of Salt Water Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Returne of Saltnesse in Pits by the Sea-Shoare Exp. 1. ibid. Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance Exp. 1. pag. 235 Of Attraction Exper. I. ibid. Of Heat vnder Earth Exp. 1. ibid. Of Flying in the Aire Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Scarlet Dye Exp. 1. ibid. Of Maleficiating Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Rise of Liquours or Powders by meanes of Flame Exp. 1. pag. 236 Of the Influences of the Moone Exp. 8. ibid. Of Vinegar Exp. 1. pag. 238 Of Creatures that sleepe all Winter Exp. 1. ibid. Of the Generating of Creatures by Copulation and by Putrefaction Exp. 1. ibid. Century X. OF the Transmission and Influx of Immateriate Vertues and the Force of Imagination whereof there be Experiments Monitory three In all Exp. 11. pag. 241 Of Emission of Spirits in Vapour or Exhalation Odour-like Exp. 26. pag. 246 Of Emissions of Spirituall Species which affect the Senses Exp. 1. pag. 250 Of Emission of Immateriate Vertues from the Mindes and Spirits of Men by Affections Imagination or other Impressions Exp. 21. ibid. Of the Secret Vertue of Sympathy and Antipathy Exp. 39. pag. 257 Of Secret Vertues and Properties Exp. 1. pag. 265 Of the Generall Sympathy of Mens Spirits Exp. 1. pag. 266 Faults escaped in the Printing PAge 6. line 28. latter reade later p. 18 l. 10. Quilt r. Quilts p. 32 l. 3y Amalgama r. Amalagma p. 93. l. 35 lose r. lost p. 122 l. 3 Coppies r. Coppice p. 139. on the Top of the Lease wanteth part of the Title Rudiments of Plants and of the Exerscences of Plants or Super-Plants p. 222 l. 5 in redundat FINIS NEW ATLANTIS A VVorke vnfinished VVritten by the Right Honourable FRANCIS Lord Verulam Viscount St. Alban VERITAS TEMPORE PATET OCCVLTA PS To the Reader THis Fable my Lord deuised to the end that He might exhibite therein a Modell or Description of a Colledge instituted for the Interpreting of Nature and the Producing of Great and Marueilous Works for the Benefit of Men Vnder the Name of Salomons House or the Colledge of the Sixe Dayes Works And euen so farre his Lordship hath proceeded us to finish that Part. Certainely the Modell is more Vast and High then can possibly be imitated in all things Notwithstanding most Things therin are within Mens Power to effect His Lordship thought also in this present Fable to haue composed a Frame of Lawes or of the best State or Mould of a Common-wealth But foreseeing it would be a long VVorke his Desire of Collecting the Naturall History diuerted him which He preferred many degrees before it This VVorke of the New Atlantis as much as concerneth the English Edition his Lordship designed for this Place In regard it hath so neare Affinity in one Part of it with the Preceding Naturall History W Rawley NEW ATLANTIS WEE sayled from Peru wher wee had continued by the space of one whole yeare for China and Iapan by the South Sea taking with vs Victuals for twelue Moneths And had good Windes from the East though soft and weake for fiue Moneths space and more But then the Winde came about and setled in the West for many dayes so as we could make little or no way and were sometimes in purpose to turne back But then againe ther arose Strong and Great Windes from the South with a Point East which carried vs vp for all that we could doe towards the North By which time our Victualls failed vs though we had made good spare of them So that finding our selues in the Midst of the greatest Wildernesse of Waters in the World without Victuall we gaue our Selues for lost Men and prepared for Death Yet we did lift vp our Harts and Voices to GOD aboue who sheweth his Wonders in the Deepe Beseeching him of his Mercy that as in the Beginning He discouered the Face of the Deepe and brought forth Dry-Land So he would now discouer Land to vs that we mought not perish And it came to passe that the next Day about Euening we saw within a Kenning before vs towards the North as it were thick Cloudes which did put vs in some hope of Land Knowing how that part of the South Sea was vtterly vnknowne And might haue Islands or Continents that hithertoo were not come to light Wherefore we bent our Course thither wher we saw the Appearance of Land all that night And in the Dawning of the next Day we might plainly discerne that it was a Land Flatt to our sight and full of Boscage which made it shew the more Darke And after an Houre and a halfs Sayling we entred into a good Hauen being the Port of a faire Citty Not great indeed but well built and that gaue a pleasant view from the Sea And we thinking euery Minute long till we were on Land came close to the Shore and offred to land But straightwayes we saw diuers of the People with Bastons in their Hands as it were forbidding vs to land Yet
of Powders and Liquours Experiment Solitary touching Exercise of the Body Experiment Solitary touching Meats that induce Society Experiments in Consort touching the Clarification of Liquours and the Accelerating thereof Experiments in Consort touching Maturation and the Accelerating thereof And â—â—â—ft touching the Maturation and Quickning or Drinks And next touching the Maturation of Fruits Experiment Solitary touching the Making of Gold Experiment Solitary touching the Nature of Gold Experiments in Consort touching the Enducing and Accelerating of Putrefaction Experiments in Consort touching Proâ—â—â—â—â—â— and Preuenting Putrefaction Experiment Solitary touching Wood Shining in the Darke Experiment Solitary touching the Acceleration of Birth Experiment Solitary touching the Acceleration of growth and Stature Experiments in Consort touching Sulphur and Mercury two of Paracelâ—es Principles Experiment Solitary touching Chameleons Experiment Solitary touching Subterrany Fires Experiment Solitary touching Nitre Experiment Solitary touching Congealing of Aire Experiment Solitary touching Congealing of Water into Crystall Experiment Solitary touching Preseruing of Roseleaues both in Colour Smell Experiments in Consort touching the Continuance of Flame Experiments in Consort touching Burialls or Insusions of diuers Bodies in Earth Experiment Solitary touching the â—â—â—â—â— in Mâ—â—â—â—â—â— from seâ—â—â— winds Experiment Solitary touching Winter and Summer â—â—â—â—â—â— Experiment Solitary touching Pesilâ—â—â—all Seasons Experiment Solitary touching an Enour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diseases Experiment Solitary touching the Aâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— or Preseruation of Liquours in Wells or deepe Vaults Experiment Solitary touching Stutting Experiments in Consort touching Smells Experiments in Consort touching the Goodnesse and Choice of Water Experiment Solitary touching the Temperate Heat vnder the AEquinoctiall Experiment Solitary touching the Coloration of Blacke and Tawney Moores Experiment Solitary touching Motion after the Inflant of Death Experiments in Consort touching the Acceleration of Germination Experiments in Consort touching the Putting backe or Retardation of Germination Experiments in Consort touching the Melioration of Fruits Trees and Plants Experiments in Consort touching Compound Fruits and Flowers Experiments in Consort touching the Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants Experiments in Consort touching the Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable Experiments in Consort touching Curiosities about Fruits and Plants Experiments in Consort touching the Degenerating of Plants And of the Transmutation of them one into another Experiments in Consort touching the Procoâ—tic and Lownesse and Artificiall dwarsing of Trees Experiments in Consort touching the Experiments in Consort touching the Producing of Perfect Pâ—ants without Seed Experiments in Consort touching Forrâ—â— Plants Experiments in Consort touching the Seasons in which Plants come forth Experiments in Consort touching the Lasting of Herbs and Trees Experiments in Consort touching the seuerall Figures of Plants Experiments in Consort touching some Principalâ— Differences in Plants Experiments in Consort touching all Manner of Composts and Helps of Ground Experiments in Consort touching the Assinities and Differences betweene Plants and Inanimate Bodies Experiments in Consort touching the Affinities and Differences of Plants and Liuing Creatures And the Consiners and â—â—â—â—â—â—â— of them Experiments Prâ—â—â—â—â—ous touching Plants Experiment Solitary touching Healing of Wounds Experiment Solitary touching â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Experiment Solitary touching Repening of Dâ—â—nk before the Time Experiment Solitary touching Pilosity and Plumage Experiment Solitary touching the Quicknesse of Motion in Birds Experiment Solitary touching the different Clear enesse of the Sea Experiment Solitary touching the different Heats of Fire and Boiling Water Experiment Solitary touching the Qualification of Heat by Moisture Experiment Solitary touching Yawning Experiment Solitary touching the Hiccough Experiment Solitary touching Sneezing Experiment Solitary touching the Tendernesse of the Teeth Experiment Solitary touching the Tongue Experiment Solitary touching the Taste Experiment Solitary touching some Prognosticks of Pestilenitall Seasons Experiment Solitary touching Speciall Simples for Medicines Experiments in Consort touching Venus Experiments in Consort touching the Insecta Experiment Solitary touching Leaping Experiment Solitary touching the Pleasures and Displeasures of the Senses especially of Hearing Experiment Solitary touching Veines of Medicinall Earth Experiment Solitary touching the Growth of Sponges Experiment Solitary touching sea-Sea-Fish put in Fish Waters Experiment Solitary touching Attraction by Simulitude of Substance Experiment Solitary touching certaine Drinkes in Turkey Experiments in Consort touching Sweat Experiment Solitary touching the GloWorme Experiments in Consort touching the Impressions which the Passions of the Minde make vpon the Body Experiments in Consort touching Drunkennesse Experiment Solitary touching the Helpe or Hint of Wine though Moderately vsed Experiment Solitary touching Catterpillers Experiment Solitary touching the Flyes Cantharides Experiments in Consort touching Lassitude Experiment Solitary touching the Casting of the Skin and Shell in some Creatures Experiments in Consort touching the Postures of the Body Experiment Solitary touching Pestilentiall Yeares Experiment Solitary touchine the Prognosticks of Hard Winters Experiment Solitary touching Medicines that Condense and Releeue the Spirits Experiment Solitary touching Faintings of the Body Experiment Solitary touching the Vse of Bathing and Annointing Experiment Solitary touching Chamoletting of Paper Experiment Solitary touching Cuttle-Inke Experiment Solitary touching Encrease of Weigh in Earth Experiments in Consort touching Sleepe Experiments in Consort touching Teeth and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Liuing Creatures Experiments in Consort touching the Generation and Bearing of Liuing Creatures in the Wombe Experiments in Consort touching Species Visible Experiments in Consort touching Impulsion and Percussion Experiment Solitary touching Titillation Experiment Solitary touching the Scarcity of Raine in AEgypt Experiment Solitary touching Clarification Experiment Solitary touching Plants without Leaues Experiment Solitary touching the Materials of Glasse Experiment Solitary touching Prohibition of Putrefaction and the Long Conseruation of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the Abundance of Nitre in certaine Sea-Shoares Experiment Solitary touching Bodies that are borne vp by Water Experiment Solitary touching Fuell that consumeth little or nothing Experiment Solitary Oeconomicall touching Cheape Fuell Experiment Solitary touching the Gathering of Wind for Freshnesse Experiment Solitary touching the Trials of Aires Experiment Solitary touching Increasing of Milke in Milch Beasts Experiment Solitary touching Sand of the Nature of Glasse Experiment Solitary touching the Growth of Corall Experiment Solitary touching the Gathering of Manna Experiment Solitary touching the Correcting of Wine Experiment Solitary touching the Materialls of Wild-Fire Experiment Solitary touching Plaster growing as Hard as Marble Experiment Solitary touching Iudgement of the Cure in some Vlcers and Hurts Experiment Solitary touching the Healthfulnesse or Vnhealthfulnesse of the Southerne Wind. Experiment Solitary touching Wounds Experiment Solitary touching Mortification by Cold. Experiment Solitary touching Weight Experiment Solitary touching the Super-Natation of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the Flying of Vnequall Bodies in the Aire Experiment Solitary touching Water that it may be the Medium of Sounds Experiment Solitary of the Flight of the Spirits vpon Odious Obiects Experiment Solitary touching the Super-Reflexion of Eccho's Experiment Solitary touching the Force of Imagination Imâ—â—a â—â—ng that of the Sense Experiment Solitary touching
Preseruation of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the Growth or Multiplying of Metalis Experiment Solitary touching the Drowning of the mne Base Metall in the more Pretious Experiment Solitary touching Fixation of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching the Restlesse Nature of Things in Themselues and their Desire to Change Experiments in Consort touching Perception in Bodies Insensible tending to Natural Diuination or Subtill Trials Experiment Solitary touching the Nature of Appetite in the Stomach Experiment Solitary touching Sweetnesse of Odour from the Rainbow Experiment Solitary touching Sweet Smells Experiment Solitary touching the Corportall Substance of Smells Experiment Solitary touching Fetide and Fragrant Odours Experiment Solitary touching the Causes of Putrefaction Experiment Solitary touching Bodies Vnperfectly Mixt. Experiment Solitary touching Alterations which may be called Maiors Experiment Solitary touching Bodies Liquefiable and not Liquefiable Experiment Solitary touching Bodies Fragile and Tough Experiment Solitary touching the Two Kindes of Pneumaticals in Bodies Experiment Solitary touching Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching Hard and Soft Bodies Experiment Solitary touching Bodies Ductile and Tensile Experiment Solitary touching other Passions of Matter and Characters of Bodies Experiment Solitary touching Induration by Sympathic Experiment Solitary touching Honey and Sugar Experiment Solitary touching the Finer Sort of Base Metals Experiment Solitary touching Coments and Quarries Experiment Solitary touching the Altering of the Colour of Haires and Feathers Experiment Solitary touching the Differences of Liuing Creatures Male Female Experiment Solitary touching the Comâ—arâ—â—e Magnitude of Liuing Creatures Experiment Solitary touching Exessasion of Fruits Experiment Solitary touching the Melieration of Tobacco Experiment Solitary touching seuerall Heats working the same Effects Experiment Solitary touching Swelling and Dilatation in Boyling Experiment Solitary touching the Dulcoration of Fruits Experiment Solitary touching Flesh Edible and not Edible Experiment Solitary touching the Salamander Experiment Solitary touching the Contrary Operations of Time vpon Fruits and Liquours Experiment Solitary touching Blowes and Bruises Experiment Solitary touching the Orris Root Experiment Solitary touching the Compression of Liquours Experiment Solitary touching the Working of Water vpon Aire Contiguous Experiment Solitary touching the Nature of Aire Experiments in Consort touching the Eyes and Sight Experiment Solitary touching the Colour of the Sea or other Water Experiment Solitary touching Shell-Fish Experiment Solitary touching the Right Side and the Left Experiment Solitary touching Frictions Experiment Solitary touching Globes appearing Flat at Distance Experiment Solitary touching Shadows Experiment Solitary touching the Rowling and Breaking of the Seas Experiment Solitary touching the Dulcoration of Salt Water Experiment Solitary touching the Returne of Saltnesse in Pits vpon the Sea-Shore Experiment Solitary touching Attraction by Similitude of Substance Experiment Solitary touching Attraction Experiment Solitary touching Heat vnder Earth Experiment Solitary touching Flying in the Aire Experiment Solitary touching the Dye of Scarlet Experiment Solitary touching â—â—â—â— Experiment Solitary touching the Rise of Water by Meanes of Flame Experiments in Consort touching the Influences of the Moone Experiment Solitary touching Vinegar Experiment Solitary touching Creatures that Sleepe all Winter Experiment Solitary touching the Generating of Creatures by Copulation and by Putrefaction Experiments in Consort touching the Transmission and Influx or Imâ—â—teriate Vertues and the Force of Imagination Experiments in Consort Moaâ—â— touching Transmission of Spirits and the Force of Imagination Experiments in Consort touching Emission of Spirits in Vapour or Exhalation Odour-like Experiment Solitary touching the Emissions of Spiritual Species which Affect the Senses Experiments in Consort touching the Emission of Immatcriate Vertues from the Mindes and Spirits of Men either by Affectious or by Imaginations or by other Impressions Experiments in Consort touching the Secret Vertue of Sympathy and Antipathy Experiment Solitary touching Secret Proprieties Experiment Solitary touching the Generall Sympathy of Mens Spirits