Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.
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- Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.
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- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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- London :: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland and Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee at the the Turks Head in Fleet-street, next to the Miter,
- 1626 [i.e. 1627]
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- Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01552.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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To the Reader.
THis Fable my Lord deuised, to the end that He might exhibite there∣in, a Modell or Description of a Colledge, instituted for the Inter∣preting of Nature, and the Pro∣ducing of Great and Marueilous Works for the Benefit of Men; Vnder the Name of Salomons House, or the Colledge of the Sixe Dayes Works. And euen so farre his Lordship hath proceeded, us to finish that Part. Certainely, the Modell is more Vast, and High, then can possibly be imita∣ted in all things; Notwithstanding most Things therin are within Mens Power to effect. His Lordship thought also in this present Fable, to haue composed a Frame of Lawes, or of the best State or Mould of a Common-wealth; But fore∣seeing it would be a long VVorke, his Desire of Collecting the Naturall History diuerted him, which He preferred many degrees before it.
This VVorke of the New Atlantis (as
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much as concerneth the English Edition) his Lord∣ship designed for this Place; In regard it hath so neare Affinity (in one Part of it) with the Pre∣ceding Naturall History.
W: Rawley.