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 1      Des|                 DESCRIPTION OF A NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY
 2      Des| description and delineation of a natural and experimental history,
 3      Des| themselves by the example of the natural histories now in use, and
 4      Des|     learned men, still without a natural and experimental history
 5      Aph|         things, comes into view. Natural history therefore is threefold.
 6      Aph|                               II~Natural history, which in its subject (
 7      Aph|        before them as the end of natural history. And the chief part
 8      Aph|       take it upon them to write natural history should bear this
 9      Aph|    Secondly, that superfluity of natural histories in descriptions
10      Aph|          of philosophy, to which natural history is as a nursing
11      Aph|       there remain any grains of natural virtue in these dregs, they
12      Aph|          Even the experiments of natural magic should be sifted diligently
13      Aph|        no small thing to relieve natural history from the three superfluities
14      Aph|     resume then the divisions of natural history which I made just
15      Aph|        but the greater masses of natural bodies. For the nature of
16      Aph|       such as are the species of natural things — metals, plants,
17      Aph|           or species, upon which natural history has hitherto been
18      Aph|   history of prodigies which are natural. For the superstitious history
19      Aph|       off the mask and veil from natural objects, which are commonly
20      Aph|      exhibit, alter, and prepare natural bodies and materials of
21      Aph|     relate to the alterations of natural bodies, and because they
22      Aph|    interrupt the progress of the natural history, they should also
23      Aph|         be usefully added to the natural history, and which will
24      Cat|         Earth; and the like.~19. Natural History of Geography; of
25      Cat|      them, as it is found in the Natural Frame and Structure, and
26      Cat|      Spirit, etc.~48. History of Natural and Involuntary Motions;
27      Cat|        History of Motions partly Natural and partly Violent; as of
28      Cat|      Memory, etc.~79. History of Natural Divinations.~80. History
29      Cat|        of Diagnostics, or Secret Natural Judgments.~81. History of