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A28210 An extract by Mr. Bushell of his late abridgment of the Lord chancellor Bacons philosophical theory in mineral prosecutions published for the satisfaction of his noble friends that importunately desired it. Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Atlantis. 1660 (1660) Wing B296A; ESTC R25904 70,608 109

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to whom all Honour Obedience Praise and Thanksgiving is now and ever due Amen An Abridgement of my Lord Bacon's Atlantis GOD blesse thee my Son I will give thee the greatest Jewel I have For I will impart unto thee for the true love of God and Men a relation of the true State of Solomons House Son to make you know the true State of Solomons House I will keep thi● order First I will set forth unto you the end of our Foundation Secondly the Preparations and Instruments we have for our works Thirdly the several Employments and Functions whereto our Fellows are assigned And fourthly the Ordinances and Rites which we observe The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret 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 have large and deep Caves of several Depths The deepest are sunk 600 Fathome And some of them are digged and made under great Hills and Mountains So that if you reckon together the Depth of the Hill and the Depth of the Cave they are some of them above three miles deep For we find that the depth of an Hill and the depth of a Cave from the Flat is the same thing both remote alike from the Sun and Heavens Beams and from the open Air. These Caves we call the Lower Region And we use them for all Coagulations Indurations Refrigerations and Conservations of Bodies We use them likewise for the Imitation of Natural Mines And the producing also of new Artificial Metals by Compositions and Materials which we use and lay there for many years We use them also sometimes which may seem strange for Curing of some Diseases and for Prolongation of Life in some Hermits that choose to live there well accommodated of all things necessary and indeed live very long by whom also we learn many things We have Burials in several Earths where we put divers Cements as the Chineses do their Porcellane But we have them in greater Variety and some of them more fine We also have great variety of Composts and Soils for the making of the Earth fruitfull We have high Towers The highest about half a Mile in height And some of them likewise set upon high Mountains So that the vantage of the Hill with the Tower is in the highest of them three Miles at least And these places we call the Upper Region Accounting the Air between the High places and the Low as a Middle Region We use these Towers according to their several Heights and Situations for Insolation Refrigeration Conversion And for the View of divers Meteors as Wind Rain Snow Hail And some of the Fiery Meteors also And upon them in some places are dwellings of Hermits whom we visit sometimes and instruct what to observe We have great Lakes both Salt and Fresh whereof we have use for the Fish and Fowl We use them also for Burials of some Natural Bodies For we find a difference in things buried in Earth or in Air below the Earth and things buried in Water We have also Pools of which some do strain Fresh Water out of Salt And others by Art do turn Fresh Water into Salt We have also some Rocks in the midst of the Sea And some Bays upon the Shore for some Works wherein is required the Air and Vapour of the Sea We have likewise violent Streams and Cataracts which serve us for many Motions And likewise Engines for Multiplying and Enforcing of Winds to set also on going divers Motions We have also a number of Artificial Wels and Fountains made in imitation of the Natural Sources and Baths as tincted upon Vitriol Sulphur Steel Brass Lead Nitre and other Minerals And again we have little Wels for Infusions of many things where the Waters take the vertue quicker and better than in Vessels or Basins And amongst them we have a Water which we call water of Paradise being by that we do to it made very Soveraign for Health and Prolongation of Life We have also great and spacious Houses where we imitate and demonstrate Meteors as Snow Hail Rain some Artificial Rains of Bodies and not of Water Thunder Lightnings Also Generations of Bodies in Air as Froggs Flies and divers others We have also certain Chambers which we call Chambers of Health where we qualifie the Air as we think good and proper for the cure of di Diseases and preservation of Health We have also fair and large Baths of several mixtures for the Cure of Diseases and the restoring of Mans Body from Arefaction and other for the Confirming of it in Strength of Sinews vital parts and the very Juice and Substance of the Body We also have large and various Orchards and Gardens wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of Ground and Soil proper for divers Trees and Herbs And some very spacious where Trees and Berryes are set whereof we make divers kinds of Drinks besides the Vineyards In these we practise likewise all Conclusions of Grafting and Inoculating as well of Wild-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 than their Seasons and to come up and bear more speedily than by their Natural Course they do We make them also by Art much greater than their Nature And their Fruit greater and sweeter and of different Taste Smel Colour and Figure from their Nature And many of them we so order that they become of Medicinal Use We have also means to make divers Plants rise by Mixtures of Earth without Seeds And likewise to make divers New Plants differing from the vulgar and to make one Tree or Plant turn into another We have also Parks and Enclosures of all sorts of Beasts and Birds which we use not only for view or Rareness but likewise for Dissections and Tryals That thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the Body of Man Wherein we find many strange Effects as Continuing Life in them though divers Parts which you account Vital be perished and taken forth Resuscitating of some that seem Dead in Appearance and the like We try also all Poysons and other Medicines upon them as well of Chirurgery as Physick By Art likewise we make them Greater or Taller than their kind is And contrary wise Drawf them and stay their Growth We make them more Fruitful and Bearing than their kind is And contrarywise Barren and not Generative Also we make them differ in Colour Shape and Activity many wayes We find means to make Commixtures and Copulations of divers Kinds which have produced many New Kinds and them not Barren as the general opinion is We make a number of Kinds of Serpents Worms Flies Fishes of Putrefaction whereof some are advanced in effect to be Perfect Creatures like Beasts or Birds And have Sexes and do propagate Neither do we
to convey Sounds in Trunks and Pipes in strange Lines and Distances We have also Perfume-houses wherewith we joyn also Practices of Taste We Multiply Smels which may seem strange We Imitate Smels making all Smels to breath out of other mixtures than those that give them We make divers Imitations of Taste likewise so that they will deceive any mans Taste And in this House we contain also a Confiture-House where we make all Sweet-meats Dry and Moist And divers pleasant Wines Milks Broaths and Sallets far in greater Variety than you have We have also Engine-Houses where are prepared Engines and Instruments for all sorts of Motions There we imitate and practise to make Swifter Motions than any you have either out of your Muskets or any Engine that you have and to Make them and multiply them more Easily and with Small-Force by Wheels and other Means and to make them stronger and more Violent than yours are Exceeding your greatest Cannons and Basilisks We represent also Ordnance and Instruments of War and Engines of all kinds and likewise new Mixtures and Compositions of Gun-powder Wild-fires burning in Water and Unquenchable Also Fireworks of all Variety both for pleasure and use We imitate also Flights of Birds We have some Degrees of Flying in the Air. We have Ships and Boats for going under Water and Brooking of Seas Also Swimming Girdles and Supporters We have divers curious Clocks and other Motions of Return And some perpetual Motions We imitate also Motions of Living Creatures by Images of Men Beasts Birds Fishes and Serpents We have also a great number of other Various Motions strange for Equality Finenesse and Subtilty We have also a Mathematical-House where are represented all Instruments as well of Geometry as Astronomy exquisitely made We have also Houses of Deceits of the Senses Where we represent all manner of Feats of jugling false Apparitions Impostures and Illusions And surely you will easily believe that we that have so many Things truly Natural which induce Admiration could in a world of Particulars deceive the Senses if we would disguise those Things and labour to make them more Miraculous But we do hate all Impostures and Lies Insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to all our Fellows under pain of Ignominy and Fines that they do not shew any Natural Work or Thing Adorned or Swelling but only Pure as it is and without all Affectation of Strangenesse These are my Son the Riches of Solomons House For the several Employments and Offices of our Fellows We have Twelve that Sail into Forein Countryes under the Name of other Nations for our own we conceal Who bring us the Books and Abstracts and Patterns of Experiments of all other parts These we call Merchants of Light We have Three that collect the Experiments which are in all Books These we call Depredators We have Three that Collect the Experiments of all the Mechanical Arts And also Libetal Sciences And also of practices which are not Arts. These we call Mystery men Such as themselves think good These we call Pioneers or Miners We have Three that draw the Experiments of the Former four into Titles and Tables to give the better light for the drawing of Observations and Axioms out of them These we call Compilers We have Three that bend themselves looking into the Experiments of their Fellows and cast about how to draw out of them Things of Use for Mans life and knowledge as well for Works as for Plain Demonstration of Causes clear Means of Natural Divinations and the easie Discovery of the vertues and Parts of Bodies These we call Dowry-men or Benefactors Then after divers Meetings and Consults of our whole Number to consider of the former labours and Collections we have Three that take care out of them to direct new Experiments of a Higher Light more Penetrating into Nature than the Former These we call Interpreters of Nature We have Three others that do execute the Experiments so Directed and Report them These we call Inoculators Lastly We have Three that raise the former Discoveries by experiments into Greater Observations Axioms and Aphorisms These we call Interpreters of Nature We have also as you must think Novices and Apprentices that the succession of the former employed men do not fail besides a great Number of Servants and Attendants Men and Women And this we do also We have Consultations which of the Inventions and Experiences which we have discovered shall be published and which not And take all an Oath of Secrecy for the concealing of those which we think meet to keep Secret Though some of those we do reveal somtimes to the State and some not For our Ordinances and Rites we have two very Long and Fair Galleries In one of these we place Patterns and Samples of all manner of the most Rare and excellent Inventions In the other we place the Statuaes of all Principal Inventors There we have the Statua of your Columbus that discovered the West-Indies Also the Inventor of Ships Your Monck that was the Inventor of Ordnance and of Gun-powder The Inventor of Musick The Inventor of Letters The Inventor of Printing The Inventor of Observations of Astronomy The Inventor of Works in Metal The Inventor of Glass The Inventor of Silk of the Worm The Inventor of Wine The Inventor of Corn and Bread The Inventor of Sugars And all these by more certain Tradition than you have Then we have divers Inventors of our own of Excellent Works which since you have not seen it were too long to make Description of them And besides in the right Understanding of those Descriptions you might easily erre For upon every Invention of Value we erect a Statua to the Inventor and give him a Liberal and Honourable Reward These Statuaes are some of Brass some of Marble and Touch-stone some of Cedar and other special Woods gilt and adorned some of Iron some of Silver some of Gold We have certain Hymns and Services which we say dayly of Laud and Thanks to God for his Marvellous Works And Forms of Prayers imploring his Aid and Blessing for the Illumination of our Labours the end turning them into Good and Holy Uses Lastly we have Circuits or Visits of divers Principal Cities of the Kingdom whereas it cometh to pass that we do publish such new profitable Inventions as we think good And we do also declare Natural Divinations of Diseases Plagues Swarms of Hurtful Creatures Scarcity Tempest Earthquakes Great Inundations Comets Temperature of the Year and divers other things And we give Counsel thereupon what the People shall do for the prevention and Remedy of it And when he had said this He stood up And I as I had been taught kneeled down and he laid his right hand upon my Head and said God bless thee my Son and God bless this relation which I have made I give thee leave to publish it for the good of other Nations For we are in Gods Bosome a Land unknown And