The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.

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The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.
Author
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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London :: Printed for Anne Moseley and Tho. Basset ...,
1671.
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Winds -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Officials and employees.
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"The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28284.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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To the seventeenth one.

There must be a more diligent Inquiry made about this Instance; for green and moist Herbs and Vegetables seem to have some occult or hid∣den heat within them. But that heat is so small and weak, that it cannot be felt in each several one; but being laid and shut up together, so that their spirit cannot breath out into air, but feedeth and nourisheth each others; then there ariseth a manifest heat, and sometimes a flame, when the matter is fitting for it.

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