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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"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 13, 2024.
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MAGNALIA NATVRAE, PRAECIPVE QVOAD VSVS HVMANOS.
- THe Prolongation of Life.
- The Restitution of Youth in some Degree.
- The Retardation of Age.
- The Curing of Diseases counted
- Incurable.
- The Mitigation of Paine.
- More Easie and lesse Loathsome Purgings.
- The Encreasing of Strength and Actiuity.
- The Encreasing of Ability to suffer Torture or
- Paine.
- The Altering of Complexions: And Fatnesse, and Leannesse.
- The Altering of Statures.
- The Altering of Features.
- The Encreasing and Exalting of the Intellectuall
- Parts.
- Versions of Bodies into other Bodies.
- Making of New Species.
- Transplanting of one Species into another.
- Instruments of Destruction, as of Warre, and Poyson.
- ...
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- Exhilaration of the Spirits, and Putting them in good Disposition.
- Force of the Imagination, either vpon another Bo∣dy, or vpon the Body it selfe.
- Acceleration of Time in Maturations.
- Acceleration of Time in Clasifications.
- Acceleration of Putrefaction.
- Acceleration of Decoction.
- Acceleration of Germination.
- Making Rich Composts for the Earth.
- Impressions of the Aire, and Raising of Tempests.
- Great Alteration; As in Induration, Emolliti∣on, &c.
- Turning Crude and VVatry Substances into
- Oyly and Vnctious Substances.
- Drawing of New Foodes out of Substances not now in Vse.
- Making New Threds for Apparell; And New
- Stuffes; Such as are Paper, Glasse, &c.
- Naturall Diuinations.
- Deceptions of the Senses.
- Greater Pleasures of the Senses.
- Artificiall Mineralls and Cements.
FINIS.