Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.

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Title: Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
Author: Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed ...,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Science -- Early works to 1800.; Industrial arts -- Early works to 1800.
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Wheat to increase the weight of Wheat.

This is done without any addition, for if we would, we could do this with many and almost infinite things, with any small addition; but in this a leaven is drawn forth of the very substance of the Wheat, which being strained, cleansed and added to the same again, either by increasing the substance of it, or by retracting the air into its substance, it will be much augmented: giving you this warning before-hand, that the augmenting heat must not be diminished, but preserved and increased, that all may depend on this. But an admirable work of Nature, and full of wonder it is, how it may be that