Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke.

  • Francis Bacon
Date:
1635
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Credit: Sylva sylvarum: or a naturall historie. In ten centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban / Published after the author's death, by William Rawley Doctor in Divinitie, one of his Majesties chaplaines. Hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the whole worke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a en ee ee ———— . (1a RR eae eS RO a rR St Tp Io Experiment Solitary tou- ching the Co mixture of | Flameand | Aire and the | great Force | thereof. bial ching the Se- et ES -— Ngianall flog: | ' Lameand Aire doenot Mingle except it be in an Iufant ; Orin the vital Spiritts of vegetables, and living Creatures. In Gunpowder, the come another Element ; the Forme whereof occupieth more place ; And fo, of Neceflity, followeth a Dilatation : And therefore, left two But thefe are Crude it were in very great quantity, will bee fuffocate with any hard Body, fuch as.a Pellecis , Or the Barrellof a Gunn; So as the Flame would andnot fafferictokindle , or {pread, , But the Caufe of this fo porent breakeand blow vp that which refifteth it;) And Secondly, when thezvviere hath dilated it felfic bloweth abroad:the Flame, asan inward Bellowes. And therefore we fee that Brimflone, Pitch, Campbire, wilde- 'resand divers other Inflammable Matterssthough they burne cruelly, they likewife willnot well mingle ofthemfelves, but in the Bodies of Plants,and Living Creatures, they will. It is ne marvaile therfore,that the Sinewes, are able tomoue the whole Body, ( which is of fo great fogreat Swiftnes, Asin playing Divifionuponthe Late. Such isthe foreeof thefetwo Natures :, Aire and Flame, when they incorporate, ay Akeafinall vax Candle, and put ic ina Socket, of Braffe, or Tron; dic Then: fect ic upright in a Porringer full of spivite of Wine, heated : Then fert borlthe Candle: and Spiritt of wine, onfite, and you fhall fee the Flame of the Gandlej open’it felf, and beeome 4. or 5. times bicger and notin Pinamis,. You fhall feealfo » that the Inward Flame of the ‘Cundle keepeth Colour;' and doth nor waxe any whittblewe towards the Colcur ofthe Outward flame of the Spirits ofwine. Thisisa Noble SoU Iaftance vii oaatan ti ae awn,
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