The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I1.
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SYLVA SYLVARUM; OR A NATURAL Of sympathy and antipathy............... 22
HISTORY. Of the spirits or pneumaticals in bodies.... 23
CENTURY I. Of the power of heat..................... 23
Of straining or percolation, outward and in- Of impossibility of annihilation........... 24
ward............................... 7
Of motion upon pressure............. 8 CENTURY II.
Of separations of bodies liquid by weight.. 8 Of music............................... 24
Of infusions in water and air............. 9 Of the nullity and entity of sounds...... 26
Of the appetite of continuation in liquids.. 10 Of production, conservation, and delation of
Of artificial springs...................... 10 sounds......2.............. 28
Of the venomous quality of man's flesh..... 10 Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds 29
Of turning air into water.................. 10 Of loudness and softness of sounds........ 32
Of helping or altering the shape of the body. 11 Of communication of sounds............. 32
Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nour- Of equality and inequality of sounds....... 32
ishment............................. 11 Of more treble and base tones............. 33
Of flame and air commixed.............. 11 Of proportion of treble and base........... 34
Of the secret nature of flame............. 12 Of exterior and interior sounds........... 34
Of flame, in the midst, and on the sides.... 12 Of articulation of sounds................. 35
Of motion of gravity..................... 12
Of contraction of bodies in bulk........... 13 CENTURY III.
Of making vines more fruitful........ 13 Of the lines in which sounds move........ 36
Of the several operations of purging medicines 13 Of the lasting and perishing of sounds..... 36
Of meats and drinks most nourishing...... 14 Of the passage in interception of sounds... 37
Of medicines applied in order............. 17 Of the medium of sounds................ 37
Of cure by custom...................... 17 Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds.... 38
Of cure by excess....................... 17 Of mixtures of sounds................ 38
Of cure by motion of consent............. 17 Of melioration of sounds................. 39
Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition 17 Of imitation of sounds................... 39
Of preparation before and after purging.... 18 Of reflection of sounds................... 40
Of stanching blood..................... 18 Of consent and dissent between audibles and
Of change of aliments and medicines...... 18 visibles........................... 41, 42
Of diets....................1.........!8 Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds..... 43
Of production of cold.................... 18 Of hindering or helping of hearing........ 44
Of turning air into water................. 19 Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds.. 44
Of induration of bodies................ 20 Of orient colours in dissolutions of metals.. 45
Of preying of air upon water............ 21 Of prolongation of life.................. 45
Of the force of union........... 22 Of the appetite of union in bodies......... 45
Of making feathers and hairs of divers co- Of the like operations of heat and time..... 45
lours................................ 22 Of the differing operations of fire and time.. 45
Of nourishment ofyoung creatures in the egg, Of motions by imitation.................. 45
or womb............................. 22 Of infectious diseases................. 46
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