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A72146	Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.; De augmentis scientiarum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 1167.7; ESTC S124505	372,640	654

man unlesse you provoke him nor Proteus ever changed shapes untill he was straitned and held fast with cordes so nature provoked and vexed by Art doth more cleerely appear than when she is left free to hir selfe But before we dismisse this part of Naturall History which we call Mechanicall and Experimentall this must be added That the body of such a History must be built not only upon Mechanicall Arts themselves but the operative part of Liberall sciences as also upon many practices not yet grown up into Art that nothing profitable may be omitted which availes to the information of the understanding And so this is the first Partition of Naturall History CAP. III. I. The Second Partition of Naturall History from the use and end thereof into Narrative and Inductive And that the most noble end of Naturall History is that it minister and conduce to the building up of Philosophy which end Inductive History respecteth II. The partitiō of the History of Generations into the History of the Heavens The History of the Meteors The History of the Earth and Sea The History of Massive Bodies or of the greater Corporations The History of Kindes or of the lesser Corporations I. NAturall History as in respect of the subiect it is of three sorts as we observed before so in respect of the use of two for it is applied either for the knowledge of things themselves recorded in History or as the Primitive matter of Philosophy The former of these which either for the pleasure of the Narrations is delightfull or for the practice of experiments is usefull and for such pleasure or profits sake is pursued is of farre inferior quality compared with that which is the Materialls and Provision of a true and just Induction and gives the first suck to Philosophy wherefore let us again divide Naturall History into History Narrative and INDUCTIVE this latter we report as DEFICIENT Nor doe the great names of Ancient Philosophers or the mighty volumes of Moderne writers so astonish my sense for I know very well that Naturall History is already extant ample for the masse for variety delightfull and often curious for the diligence but if you take from thence Fables and Antiquity and Allegations of Authors and vain Controversies Philology and Ornaments which are accommodate to Table-talke or the night-discourses of Learned men then will the sequel for the INSTAURATIONS or PHILOSOPHY come to no great matter And to speak truth this is farre short of the variety which we intend For first those two parts of Naturall History whereof we have spoken The History of Praeter-generations and of Arts matters of great consequence are there Deficient than in that third generall Part mentioned before namely of Generations of five parts thereof the Naturall History extant gives satisfaction only to one II. For the History of Generations hath Five subordinate Parts The first is of Celestiall Bodies which comprehends the PHAENOMENA sincere and not dogmatiz'd into any peremptory assertions The second of Meteors with the Comets and of the Regions as they call them of the Aire neither is there extant any History concerning Comets Fiery Meteors Windes Raine Tempests and the rest of any valew The third is of the Earth and of the Water as they are integrall parts of the world of Mountaines of Rivers of Tydes of Sands of Woods as also of the Figure of the continents as they are stretcht forth in all these particulars the Inquiries and Observations are rather Naturall than Cosmographicall Fourthly touching the generall Masses of Matter which we stile the Greater Collegiats commonly called the Elements Neither are there found any narrations touching Fire Aire Water and of their Natures Motions Workings Impressions which make up any complete Body The fift and the last Part is of the Perfect and exact Collections which we entitle the lesser Collegiats commonly called Kindes or Specifiques Jn this last part only the industry of writers hath appeared yet so as was prodigally wasted in superfluous matter swelling with the outward descriptions of liveing Creatures or of Plants and such like than enricht with solid and diligent observations which in naturall History should every where be annext and interserted And to speak in a word all the naturall History we have as well in regard of the Inquisition as of the Collection is no way proportionable in reference to that end whereof we speak namely the Raiseing and advancing of Philosophy Wherefore we pronounce Inductive History Deficient And thus farre of naturall History CAP. IV. I. The Partition of Civill History into Ecclesiasticall and Literary and which retaines the generall name Civile II. Literary Deficient § Precepts how to compile it I. CIvile History in our Judgement is rightly divided into three kindes first into Sacred or Ecclesiasticall then into that which retaines the generall name Civile lastly into that of Learning and Arts. We will begin with that kinde we set down last because the other are extant but this I thought good to report as DEFICIENT ✿ it is the HISTORY OF LEARNING And surely the History of the world destitute of this may be thought not unlike the statue of Polyphemus with his eye out that part of the Image being wanting which doth most shew the nature and spirit of the Person And though we set downe this as Deficient yet we are not ignorant that in divers particular sciences of Iuris-consults Mathematicians Rhetoricians Philosophers there are made some slight Memorialls and small relations of Sects Schooles Books Authors and such like successions of sciences There are likewise extant some weak and barren discourses touching the Inventors of Arts and Vsages but a Iust and Generall HISTORY OF LEARNING we avouch that none hetherto hath bin publisht Wherefore we will propound the Argument the way how to contrive it and the use thereof II. The Argument is nothing else but a recitall from all Times what Knowledges and Arts in what Ages and Climates of the world have florisht Let there be made a commemoration of their Antiquities Progresses and Peragrations through diverse parts of the world for Sciences shift and remove as people doe Againe of their Declensions Oblivions and Instaurations Let there likewise be observations taken through all Arts of the occasion and originall of their Jnvention of their Manner of delivery and the discipline of their managings Course of study and exercises Let there also be added the Sects then on foot and the more famous controversies which busied and exercised Learned men the Scandalls and reproches to which they lay open the Lands and Honours wherewith they were grac't Let there be noted the Chiefest Authors the best Bookes Schooles Successions Vniversities Societies Colledges Orders and whatsoever else belongs to the State of Learning But above all let this be observed which is the Grace and Spirit of Civile History that the Causes and Consultations be Connexed with the events namely that the nature of Countries and People be recorded the dispositions

Duke of Saxonie when the cōmission was brought him Hist Germ. as he was playing at chests wherein his death was commanded the next day call'd to one that stood by and smiling said See whether I have not the better hand of this game He pointing towards him with whom he plaid will boast when J am dead that he was the fairer of set And our More Chancellour of England when the day before he was to die a Barber came unto him sent for this end lest perchance the grave and reverend sight of his long haire might move compassion in the People Vita Mori and asked him whether it was his pleasure to have his haire cut he refused and turning to the Barber The King said he is at suit with me for my head and untill that Controversie be ended I meane to bestow no cost upon it And the same Person at the very point of Death after he had laid his head upon the fatall Block raiseth up himselfe a litle agen and having a faire large Beard gently removed it saying Yet I hope this hath not offended the King But not to insist too long upon this point it is evident what we meane namely that the wonders of Humane Nature and the ultimate Powers and virtues as well of Mind as of Body should be collected into a Volume which might serve as a Kalendar of Humane Triumphs For a worke of this Nature we approve the purpose and Designe of Valerius Maximus and C. Plinius but it could be wisht they had us'd more choice and Diligence III As touching the knowledge of the league or mutuall Alliance between the body and the Mind that may be distributed into two Parts For as all leagues and Amities consist of mutuall intelligence and mutuall offices so this league of Mind and Body is in like manner comprised in these two circumstances that is to describe How these two namely the Mind and the body disclose one the other and how one worketh upon the other by discovery or Jndication and by Jmpression The former of these namely a description what discovery may be made of the Mind from the habit of the Body or of the Body from the Accidents of the Mind hath begotten unto us two Arts both of prediction whereof the one is honoured with the Inquiry of Aristotle Arist Hipp. and the other of Hippocrates And although the moderne times have polluted these Arts with superstitious and Phantasticall mixtures yet being purged and restored to their true state they have both a solid ground in nature and a profitable use in life § The first is Physiognomy which discovers the dispositions of the mind by the lineaments of the Body The second is the exposition of Naturall dreams which discovereth the state and Disposition of the Body from the Passions and Motions of the mind In the Former of these ✿ PHYSIOGNOMIA CORPORIS IN MOTV I note a DEFICIENCE for Aristotle hath very ingeniously and diligently handled the Postures of the Body while it is at Rest but not the Gestures of the Body when it is in Motion which are no lesse comprehensible by Art and of Greater use For the lineaments of the Body doe disclose the Inclinations and Proclivities of the Mind in generall but the Motions and Gestures of the face and Parts doe not only so but further declare the Accesses and Seasons and Prognostiques of the present disposition and of the will For to use your Majesties most apt and elegant expression The tongue speaks to the eare IACOBUS R. but the gesture speaks to the eye And therefore a number of old subtile and craftie Persons whose eyes doe dwell upon the faces and fashions of Men doe well know this observation and can turne it to their owne advantage as being a great part of their ability and wisdome Neither indeed can it be denied but that this is a great discovery of dissimulation in an other and a great direction for the election of seasons and opportunities of approaching to persons which is not the meanest part of Civile Prudence And let no man think that such a dexterity may somewhat availe in respect of some Particular persons but cannot be comprehended under rule for we all laugh and weepe and blush and bend the brow much after the same manner and so for most part it is in other more subtile motions As for Chiromancy it is a meere imposture § And as touching the exposition of Dreames it is a subject handled in some mens writings but foild with many idle vanities only thus much for the present I doe Insinuate that this knowledge of interpreting Dreams wants the support of a solid Base and that foundation is this where the same effect is wrought by an inward cause that useth to be wrought by an outward that externe Act is transformed into a Dreame The surcharge of the stomack from a grosse vapour and from the poise of some outward waight are a like wherefore they that labour of the Night-mare doe dreame that a waight is put upon them with a great preparation of circumstances The fluctuation or pensility of the Bowells from the agitation of the waves in the sea and from the winde gathered about the Diaphragma are a like therefore such as are troubled with the Hypocondriaque wind doe often dream of Navigations and agitations upon the waters There are an infinite number of such like instances § The other branch of the knowledge of the league which we have called Impression hath not as yet bin collected into Art but hath sometimes intervened among other Treatises sparsedly and as in passage only It hath the same Antistrophe with the former for the consideration is double either how and how farre the humors and temperament of the body doe alter or worke upon the mind Or againe How and how farre the Passions and apprehensions of the mind doe alter or work upon the Body The former of these we see sometimes handled in the Art of Physique but the same hath by strange waies insinuated it selfe into Religion For the Physitian prescribes Remedies to cure the Maladies of the mind as in the cures of Frenzies and Melancholy they doe also administer Physique to exhilerate the Mind to munite and strengthen the heart and so to increase the courage to sharpen and clarify the wits to corroborate the Memory and the like But Dietes and choice of meats and drinks and other observances touching the Body in the sect of the Pythagoreans in the Heresie of the Manichees and in the law of Mahomet doe exceed all measure So likewise the ordinances of the Ceremoniall Law interdicting the eating of the bloud Deut. 12. the Fat and distinguishing between beasts clean and unclean so farre as they are for meat are many and strict Nay the Christian faith it selfe though cleere and syncere from all clouds of ceremonies yet retaines the use of Fastings Abstinences and other observances which tend to the maceration and