Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson].

  • Simpson, W. (William), active 1665-1677
Date:
1675
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Credit: Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i | | OF Fermentation, 37 as ti ved to grow and regenerate. Eraffys (as Dr. Jorden notes) affirms, that he {aw in S. ! lta] Foachims Dale, filver grown upon a beam of i its} Wood, which was placed in the Pit to-fupport i ‘i ey] the works : The likeof reproductions of we- . ul Eads, is alfo obferved in the Lead-mines at Alen- (4) aap and the Peake, which donot onely {tretch otis] further inextent of ground, then hath been || nwt Obferved heretofore, butalfo are renewed in wii] the fame ground, which hath been formerly wie] Wrought, which we have touch‘d upon in our «) | Hydrological Effays. iwi) Wherefore feeing wixerals are continually cytet] Benerated, their conftitutive priwciples intheir yin fermeental operation, mult as conftantly be at que) Work, efpecially where concretion is interrup- jadi ted by a continual flux of water, as happens fi) mn the fource of molt of thefe hot Baths. ~ Now where the (eeds of winerals are once . if) begun, that their active principles are fet a i] Work, inorderto the heaving forth a body (iit anfwerable to the type implanted in the pri- | wor dials thereof. If this happens, fay, where {water inhis fubterraneous paffages hath its con- aftant current, it can never arrive at the com- ~ | pleating of the body according to the inten- ya tion of vature 3 for although it be always aim- ‘yf ing at the perfecting of a folid concretion; wf yet the conftant afflux of waters, impedes iq that attempt, and onely ferves to keep the | D 3 fer- Faerie MR a Ope eee cn artes eat trae z,
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