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

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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$OE Fermentation. \ Of experiments we further illuftrate in our “t Halologia Chymica. ‘Thus alfo from the aforefaid experiments, “| may (without any more ado) an account be “given of many fubterraneous Eruptions: for I i have by them at once given a {ufficient demon- Ml firation ( asI think ) bothof the reafons and “ 18) eanfes of Earth-quakes, and alfo of Eruptions, ‘igt] Inafmuch as that Fermentation from mineral i) Juzcez made in ftraight weanders of the Earth, iit] when it cannot find vert, if moderately ftrong, | they only cauleé terra tremor 3 but if very wio- OY lent, even nigh an actual flagration, then the lt] greater the weight of Earth, Rocks, or other | matter is, which lieth upon it, the firozzer and iia] More hideous ave the Eruptions : breaking in ill pzeces all before it. _ Sothat Ifuppofe all Erup- iit} #2ons and fubterraneal belchings, to proceed iu] from one of thefe two caufes, viz. either wi! from fubterraneal fires of Sulphurous minerals | actually, but accidentally £ézdled,witnefs thofe iil Vulcanos of Fina, Pains Strongilo, &e. of wast which we have difcourfed in our Hydrological i Effayes, or elfe from fubterraneal Fermentations, iif amoneft which, fome may poflibly rife fo high ol and trong from the great plenty of sulphur ill and Acids, fet into an atfual Ebulfition, as that qi! they may ( by the air which may probably i reach them through fome {mall crevices ) attu- i ally take fire and burn. ‘Thus befides the fore- , faid$