Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life / Published ... by William Rawley ... Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the New Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries.

Francis Bacon

Date:: 1676

Credit: Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life / Published ... by William Rawley ... Whereunto is added articles of enquiry, touching metals and minerals. And the New Atlantis. With an alphabetical table of the principal things contained in the ten centuries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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