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1 Cat| PARTICULAR HISTORIES BY TITLES~1. History of the Heavenly 2 Cat| heavens caused by the medium.~10. History of Showers, Ordinary, 3 Cat| of Ticking and Feathers.~100. History of working in Iron.~ 4 Cat| History of working in Iron.~101. History of Stone-cutting.~ 5 Cat| History of Stone-cutting.~102. History of the making of 6 Cat| making of Bricks and Tiles.~103. History of Pottery.~104. 7 Cat| 103. History of Pottery.~104. History of Cements, etc.~ 8 Cat| History of Cements, etc.~105. History of working in Wood.~ 9 Cat| History of working in Wood.~106. History of working in Lead.~ 10 Cat| History of working in Lead.~107. History of Glass and all 11 Cat| substances, and of Glass-making.~108. History of Architecture 12 Cat| Architecture generally.~109. History of Wagons, Chariots, 13 Cat| are called); and the like.~11. History of Hail, Snow, 14 Cat| Chariots, Litters, etc.~110. History of Printing, of 15 Cat| Paper, Parchment, etc.~111. History of Wax.~112. History 16 Cat| etc.~111. History of Wax.~112. History of Basket-making.~ 17 Cat| History of Basket-making.~113. History of Mat-making, 18 Cat| Straw, Rushes, and the like.~114. History of Washing, Scouring, 19 Cat| Washing, Scouring, etc.~115. History of Agriculture, 20 Cat| Culture of Woods, etc.~116. History of Gardening.~117. 21 Cat| 116. History of Gardening.~117. History of Fishing.~118. 22 Cat| 117. History of Fishing.~118. History of Hunting and 23 Aph| because (as I have said in the 118th aphorism of the first book) 24 Cat| of Hunting and Fowling.~119. History of the Art of War, 25 Aph| that which in the 99th, 119th, and 120th aphorisms of 26 Cat| Fog, Dew, and the like.~12. History of all other things 27 Cat| Cross-bows, Machines, etc.~120. History of the Art of Navigation, 28 Aph| in the 99th, 119th, and 120th aphorisms of the first book 29 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~121. History of Athletics and 30 Cat| Exercises of all kinds.~122. History of Horsemanship.~ 31 Cat| History of Horsemanship.~123. History of Games of all 32 Cat| History of Games of all kinds.~124. History of Jugglers and 33 Cat| Jugglers and Mountebanks.~125. Miscellaneous History of 34 Cat| Porcelain, various Cements, etc.~126. History of Salts.~127. 35 Cat| 126. History of Salts.~127. Miscellaneous History of 36 Cat| various Machines and Motions.~128. Miscellaneous History of 37 Cat| observations than experiments.~129. History of the Natures 38 Cat| generated in the upper region.~13. History of Sounds in the 39 Cat| Natures and Powers of Numbers.~130. History of the Natures 40 Cat| be any), besides Thunder.~14. History of Air as a whole, 41 Cat| Configuration of the World.~15. History of the Seasons 42 Cat| Droughts, and the like.~16. History of Earth and Sea; 43 Cat| Isthmuses and Promontories.~17. History of the Motions ( 44 Cat| motions may be collected.~18. History of the greater 45 Cat| the Earth; and the like.~19. Natural History of Geography; 46 Cat| or Astronomical History.~2. History of the Configuration 47 Cat| pertaining to Civil life.~20. History of Ebbs and Flows 48 Cat| other Motions of the Sea.~21. History of the other Accidents 49 Cat| Histories of the Greater Masses.~22. History of Flame and of 50 Cat| Configuration of the World.~24. History of Water, in Substance, 51 Cat| Configuration of the World.~25. History of Earth and the 52 Cat| come Histories of Species.~26. History of perfect Metals, 53 Cat| the Working in the Mines.~27. History of Quicksilver.~ 54 Cat| History of Quicksilver.~28. History of Fossils; as 55 Cat| as Vitriol, Sulphur, etc.~29. History of Gems; as the 56 Cat| Cosmographical History.~3. History of Comets.~4. History 57 Cat| Diamond, the Ruby, etc.~30. History of Stones; as Marble, 58 Cat| Touchstone, Flint, etc.~31. History of the Magnet.~ 59 Cat| History of the Magnet.~32. History of Miscellaneous 60 Cat| Amber, Ambergris, etc.~33. Chemical History of Metals 61 Cat| of Metals and Minerals.~34. History of Plants, Trees, 62 Cat| Fruits, Seeds, Gums, etc.~35. Chemical History of Vegetables.~ 63 Cat| Chemical History of Vegetables.~36. History of Fishes, and 64 Cat| and Generation of them.~37. History of Birds, and the 65 Cat| and Generation of them.~38. History of Quadrupeds, 66 Cat| and Generation of them.~39. History of Serpents, Worms, 67 Cat| History.~3. History of Comets.~4. History of Fiery Meteors.~ 68 Cat| and Generation of them.~40. Chemical History of the 69 Cat| Next come Histories of Man.~41. History of the Figure and 70 Cat| other smaller differences.~42. Physiognomical History 71 Cat| Physiognomical History of the same.~43. Anatomical History, or 72 Cat| of the course of Nature.~44. History of the parts of 73 Cat| Bones, Membranes, etc.~45. History of Humors in Man; 74 Cat| Whitlows, Nails, and the like.~47. History of Faculties; Attraction, 75 Cat| Blood into Spirit, etc.~48. History of Natural and 76 Cat| Sneezing, Lungs, Erection, etc.~49. History of Motions partly 77 Cat| History of Fiery Meteors.~5. History of Lightnings, 78 Cat| Cough, Urine, Stool, etc.~50. History of Voluntary Motions; 79 Cat| Fingers; of Swallowing, etc.~51. History of Sleep and Dreams.~ 80 Cat| History of Sleep and Dreams.~52. History of different habits 81 Cat| as they call them), etc.~53. History of the Generation 82 Cat| of the Generation of Man.~54. History of Conception, 83 Cat| in the Womb, Birth, etc.~55. History of the Food of 84 Cat| and smaller differences.~56. History of the Growth and 85 Cat| whole and in its parts.~57. History of the Course of 86 Cat| and lesser differences.~58. History of Life and Death.~ 87 Cat| History of Life and Death.~59. History Medicinal of Diseases, 88 Cat| Thunders, and Coruscations.~6. History of Winds and Sudden 89 Cat| Symptoms and Signs of them.~60. History Medicinal of the 90 Cat| Remedies and Cures of Diseases.~61. History Medicinal of those 91 Cat| the Body and the Health.~62. History Medicinal of those 92 Cat| Comeliness of the Body.~63. History Medicinal of those 93 Cat| to Alternative Regimen.~64. History of Drugs.~65. History 94 Cat| Regimen.~64. History of Drugs.~65. History of Surgery.~66. 95 Cat| 65. History of Surgery.~66. Chemical History of Medicines.~ 96 Cat| Chemical History of Medicines.~67. History of Vision, and 97 Cat| and of things Visible.~68. History of Painting, Sculpture, 98 Cat| Sculpture, Modelling, etc.~69. History of Hearing and 99 Cat| Undulations of the Air.~7. History of Rainbows.~8. 100 Cat| History of Hearing and Sound.~70. History of Music.~71. History 101 Cat| Sound.~70. History of Music.~71. History of Smell and Smells.~ 102 Cat| History of Smell and Smells.~72. History of Taste and Tastes.~ 103 Cat| History of Taste and Tastes.~73. History of Touch, and the 104 Cat| and the objects of Touch.~74. History of Venus, as a 105 Cat| as a species of Touch.~75. History of Bodily Pains, 106 Cat| Pains, as species of Touch.~76. History of Pleasure and 107 Cat| Pleasure and Pain in general.~77. History of the Affections; 108 Cat| Anger, Love, Shame, etc.~78. History of the Intellectual 109 Cat| Discourse, Memory, etc.~79. History of Natural Divinations.~ 110 Cat| 7. History of Rainbows.~8. History of Clouds, as they 111 Cat| of Natural Divinations.~80. History of Diagnostics, 112 Cat| Secret Natural Judgments.~81. History of Cookery, and 113 Cat| Butcher, Poulterer, etc.~82. History of Baking, and 114 Cat| as of the Miller, etc.~83. History of Wine.~84. History 115 Cat| etc.~83. History of Wine.~84. History of the Cellar and 116 Cat| different kinds of Drink.~85. History of Sweetmeats and 117 Cat| Sweetmeats and Confections.~86. History of Honey.~87. History 118 Cat| Confections.~86. History of Honey.~87. History of Sugar.~88. History 119 Cat| Honey.~87. History of Sugar.~88. History of the Dairy.~89. 120 Cat| 88. History of the Dairy.~89. History of Baths and Ointments.~ 121 Cat| as they are seen above.~9. History of the Blue Expanse, 122 Cat| of Baths and Ointments.~90. Miscellaneous History concerning 123 Cat| Barbers, Perfumers, etc.~91. History of the working 124 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~92. History of the manufactures 125 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~93. History of the manufactures 126 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~94. History of manufactures 127 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~95. History of manufactures 128 Cat| manufactures of Feathers.~96. History of Weaving, and 129 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~97. History of Dyeing.~98. 130 Cat| 97. History of Dyeing.~98. History of Leather-making, 131 Cat| arts thereto belonging.~99. History of Ticking and 132 Aph| resumed that which in the 99th, 119th, and 120th aphorisms 133 Des| intellect, I shall perhaps be able to master that by myself; 134 Aph| experimenting, unless they abound everywhere, will be presently 135 Des| or shall be nothing but academies and colleges and schools 136 Aph| they present themselves accidentally, provided they do not too 137 Aph| bodies, and because they give accurate information concerning local 138 Aph| is as a nursing mother, accustomed to old wives' fables. The 139 Des| which the inquiry is to be adapted and referred as the particular 140 Aph| set down by way of note or admonition. For I want this primary 141 Cat| general.~77. History of the Affections; as Anger, Love, Shame, 142 Aph| statements are), or rather affirmed it of his own knowledge; 143 Aph| nature of individuals. They afford a pleasant recreation in 144 Des| and forecast of the mark aimed at may suggest to men's 145 Cat| Sanguification, Assimilation of Aliment into the members, conversion 146 Aph| them which relate to the alterations of natural bodies, and because 147 Aph| of nature as changed and altered by man, or experimental 148 Cat| the Body, and pertain to Alternative Regimen.~64. History of 149 | although 150 Aph| ceremonial magic should be altogether rejected. For I would not 151 | am 152 Cat| Vegetable; as Salts, Amber, Ambergris, etc.~33. Chemical History 153 Cat| History of the same.~43. Anatomical History, or of the Internal 154 Cat| History of the Affections; as Anger, Love, Shame, etc.~78. History 155 Aph| the moon, or apparently angular, but globular in the middle, 156 Aph| will not be destroyed or annihilated, rather than that they will 157 Aph| from vulgar sympathies and antipathies, with great sloth and facility 158 Aph| worth.~First then, away with antiquities, and citations or testimonies 159 | anyhow 160 Aph| I have said in the 118th aphorism of the first book) mistakes 161 Aph| circumscribed and limited it should appear to some poor-spirited person 162 Aph| variety of shapes and external appearance. Finally, the vexations 163 Cat| the Earth, Islands newly appearing; Floating Islands; Breakings 164 Aph| prodigies, when the report appears to be faithful and probable, 165 Des| the whole human race had applied or shall hereafter apply 166 Des| applied or shall hereafter apply themselves to philosophy, 167 Des| prepared and set forth, others applying themselves diligently to 168 Des| material true and copious and aptly digested for the work of 169 Aph| the like. For to add the arguments on either side would be 170 Aph| hand till now. For neither Aristotle, nor Theophrastus, nor Dioscorides, 171 Aph| the case of a very small armed magnet). I know well enough 172 Cat| arts thereto belonging, as Armory, Bow-making, Arrow-making, 173 Cat| reference to arts, and to arrange them with reference to bodies. 174 Aph| good, and that they be so arranged as to take up as little 175 Aph| building or the like, thinks of arranging them elegantly, as in a 176 Cat| as Armory, Bow-making, Arrow-making, Musketry, Ordnance, Cross-bows, 177 Cat| as of the Instruments of Articulation of Words; Motions of the 178 Aph| particulars of that kind are to be ascertained and set down. And when exact 179 Cat| of every variety in the aspect of the heavens caused by 180 Aph| truth of the thing may be) I assign comets of whatever kind, 181 Cat| Expulsion, Sanguification, Assimilation of Aliment into the members, 182 Aph| that may perhaps be of some assistance to an inquirer which is 183 Des| now in use, and so go far astray from my design. Meanwhile, 184 Aph| distrust the calculations of astronomers as to the distances of the 185 Cat| the Heavenly Bodies; or Astronomical History.~2. History of the 186 Cat| belonging.~121. History of Athletics and Human Exercises of all 187 Cat| 47. History of Faculties; Attraction, Digestion, Retention, Expulsion, 188 Aph| garlic weakens it, that amber attracts everything except basil, 189 Aph| man and works under his authority; without man, such things 190 Aph| citations or testimonies of authors, and also with disputes 191 Aph| they must be sought for as auxiliaries in the course of interpretation 192 Des| there be added to it such auxiliary and light-giving experiments 193 | away 194 Aph| this very instance is not a bad one for investigating the 195 Cat| Poulterer, etc.~82. History of Baking, and the Making of Bread, 196 Cat| care of the body — as of Barbers, Perfumers, etc.~91. History 197 Aph| attracts everything except basil, and other things of that 198 Cat| of Wax.~112. History of Basket-making.~113. History of Mat-making, 199 Cat| the Dairy.~89. History of Baths and Ointments.~90. Miscellaneous 200 Aph| according to their indirect bearing upon other things and the 201 | become 202 Aph| myself since until men have begun to be somewhat more closely 203 Des| many people to help, and being (as I have said elsewhere) 204 Aph| ruin and destruction of a believer; viz., a brief review, as 205 Aph| sloth and facility both of believing and inventing.~And it is 206 Aph| line, except perhaps in the belt and dagger of Orion.~Fifthly, 207 Des| I hold it to be somewhat beneath the dignity of an undertaking 208 Aph| kept separate. It will be best, therefore, to consider 209 Aph| greatest diligence must be bestowed.~Again, among the particular 210 Aph| handcuffs of Proteus, which betray the ultimate struggles and 211 Aph| little rings, like persons bewitched, but our range and circuit 212 Cat| of Humors in Man; Blood, Bile, Seed, etc.~46. History 213 Aph| ages (as that the diamond binds the magnet, garlic weakens 214 Cat| of them.~37. History of Birds, and the Parts and Generation 215 Cat| Gestation in the Womb, Birth, etc.~55. History of the 216 Cat| History of Winds and Sudden Blasts and Undulations of the Air.~ 217 Cat| above.~9. History of the Blue Expanse, of Twilight, of 218 Cat| of Touch.~75. History of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch.~ 219 Cat| Structure in Man; as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc.~45. History 220 Cat| History of Printing, of Books, of Writing, of Sealing; 221 Aph| observed and constantly borne in mind that not only those 222 Aph| prevented from increasing beyond bounds. But if even as here circumscribed 223 Cat| thereto belonging, as Armory, Bow-making, Arrow-making, Musketry, 224 Cat| Course of Age; Infancy, Boyhood, Youth, Old Age; of Length 225 Cat| Baking, and the Making of Bread, and the arts thereto belonging, 226 Cat| appearing; Floating Islands; Breakings off of Land by entrance 227 Aph| destruction of a believer; viz., a brief review, as in passage, of 228 Aph| admitted be themselves set down briefly and concisely, so that they 229 Des| everywhere in search of them and bring them in. Besides I hold 230 Aph| with the view of thereby bringing the several arts to greater 231 Aph| toward the south, wide and broad toward the north, the figure 232 Cat| each other; and of their broadening or narrowing; of Islands 233 Des| history, such as may serve to build philosophy upon, and containing 234 Aph| storing up materials for ship building or the like, thinks of arranging 235 Aph| of this is that a fresh bulbous root grows upon it every 236 Aph| remaining; whence those twin bulbs. And it is manifest that 237 Cat| thereto belonging, as of the Butcher, Poulterer, etc.~82. History 238 Aph| we happen to distrust the calculations of astronomers as to the 239 Aph| the bodies of civil and canonical law on one side, and at 240 Aph| is also very good to add canons (which are nothing more 241 Aph| Work I have spoken of the cardinal virtues in nature, and said 242 Aph| less use, such as weaving, carpentry, architecture, manufacture 243 Aph| investigation of nature has been carried deeper.~History of arts, 244 Aph| an object which in many cases I do not despise, yet my 245 Aph| earth and sea, whether the Caspian ebbs and flows, and at how 246 Aph| than certain general and catholic observations), as in the 247 Aph| testicles — when the real cause of this is that a fresh 248 Cat| the aspect of the heavens caused by the medium.~10. History 249 Aph| first, of ether and things celestial. The second, of meteors 250 Cat| Wine.~84. History of the Cellar and of different kinds of 251 Aph| stories) and experiments of ceremonial magic should be altogether 252 Aph| of arts, and of nature as changed and altered by man, or experimental 253 Aph| oceans intersect the earth in channels running north and south, 254 Aph| of Delta, Crown, Cross, Chariot, etc.) scarcely so much 255 Cat| 109. History of Wagons, Chariots, Litters, etc.~110. History 256 Aph| though no doubt this kind of chastity and brevity will give less 257 Aph| as agriculture, cookery, chemistry, dyeing, the manufacture 258 Aph| natural history. And the chief part of the matter rests 259 Aph| thirdly, things trifling and childish (and no wonder, for we are 260 Aph| to become again as little children); and lastly, things which 261 Aph| bewitched, but our range and circuit will be as wide as the compass 262 Aph| bounds. But if even as here circumscribed and limited it should appear 263 Aph| away with antiquities, and citations or testimonies of authors, 264 Aph| which is philological. Never cite an author except in a matter 265 Cat| apart Nations, Provinces, Cities, and such like matters pertaining 266 Cat| same according to Races and Climates, or other smaller differences.~ 267 Aph| architecture, manufacture of mills, clocks, and the like, although 268 Aph| begun to be somewhat more closely intimate with nature, I 269 Cat| Rainbows.~8. History of Clouds, as they are seen above.~ 270 Aph| nature and impression of cold. Therefore, it would be 271 Aph| words. For no man who is collecting and storing up materials 272 Aph| which were before of the color of mud, turn red when baked 273 Aph| working comes of the due combination of physics and mathematics. 274 Cat| which relate to the Form and Comeliness of the Body.~63. History 275 Aph| on one side, and at the commentaries of doctors and lawyers on 276 Aph| indefinite estimates and comparatives. As for instance (if we 277 Aph| superficial space it occupies in comparison of the waters — in the history 278 Aph| with brevity, and almost compelled to it by the condition of 279 Aph| this primary history to be compiled with a most religious care, 280 Aph| therefore, as a history has been completed of all these things which 281 Des| that while I go on with the completion of my original design, this 282 Aph| which they require is very complex and subtle, and for the 283 Cat| Body — Fat, Lean; of the Complexions (as they call them), etc.~ 284 Aph| which the history should be composed. For the end rules the method.~ 285 Aph| earth and sea; how much compression air will bear without strong 286 Aph| objects, which are commonly concealed and obscured under the variety 287 Des| of this kind, such as I conceive and shall presently describe, 288 Cat| Generation of Man.~54. History of Conception, Vivification, Gestation 289 Aph| moment. And for all that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, 290 Aph| themselves set down briefly and concisely, so that they may be nothing 291 Aph| almost compelled to it by the condition of things; whereas opinions, 292 Aph| inquired and collected, as conducing to the end I have in view — 293 Aph| which the experiment was conducted should be added, that men 294 Cat| History of Sweetmeats and Confections.~86. History of Honey.~87. 295 Aph| it not be thought that I confound this fourth part with the 296 Aph| much. Nor is it of much consequence to the business in hand 297 Aph| will be best, therefore, to consider these things as the case 298 Aph| and the like. Those which consist principally in the subtle 299 Aph| especially to be observed and constantly borne in mind that not only 300 Aph| of impediments, or she is constrained and molded by art and human 301 Aph| universe. But in the fourth is contained the history of their own 302 Des| build philosophy upon, and containing material true and copious 303 Aph| nature and nothing else) are content with brevity, and almost 304 Aph| whether there is any southern continent or only islands, and the 305 Aph| history should bear this continually in mind — that they ought 306 Cat| Encroachments and Inundations and contrariwise Recessions of the Sea; Eruptions 307 Aph| north, the figure of the sea contrary; that the great oceans intersect 308 Cat| those things which they contribute to the equipment of philosophy. 309 Aph| and also with disputes and controversies and differing opinions — 310 Aph| credit; never introduce a controversy unless in a matter of great 311 Aph| said that it may be most conveniently joined with the history 312 Cat| Aliment into the members, conversion of Blood and Flower of Blood 313 Aph| not only important for the cook that he may know how to 314 Des| containing material true and copious and aptly digested for the 315 Aph| be presently detected and corrected by the truth of axioms. 316 Cat| Thunderbolts, Thunders, and Coruscations.~6. History of Winds and 317 Cat| and the parts thereof; or Cosmographical History.~3. History of Comets.~ 318 Cat| manufactures of Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Hair, and other kinds of 319 Cat| Violent; as of Respiration, Cough, Urine, Stool, etc.~50. 320 | could 321 Cat| Man, his Stature, Frame, Countenance and Features; and of the 322 Aph| example, that locusts or crabs, which were before of the 323 Aph| source of any vanity or credulity happens to present itself, 324 Aph| be given of Delta, Crown, Cross, Chariot, etc.) scarcely 325 Cat| Arrow-making, Musketry, Ordnance, Cross-bows, Machines, etc.~120. History 326 Aph| names be given of Delta, Crown, Cross, Chariot, etc.) scarcely 327 Cat| Agriculture, Pasturage, Culture of Woods, etc.~116. History 328 Cat| Treatment and Remedies and Cures of Diseases.~61. History 329 Aph| pictures of species, and the curious variety of the same, is 330 Aph| certainly not true are yet current and much in men's mouths, 331 Cat| Ebbs and Flows of the Sea; Currents, Undulations, and other 332 Aph| perhaps in the belt and dagger of Orion.~Fifthly, that 333 Aph| may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest 334 Cat| Sugar.~88. History of the Dairy.~89. History of Baths and 335 Aph| shall we be no longer kept dancing within little rings, like 336 Cat| 58. History of Life and Death.~59. History Medicinal of 337 Des| then will men wake as from deep sleep, and at once perceive 338 Aph| numbered, weighed, measured, defined. For it is works we are 339 Aph| know well enough that these definite instances do not occur readily 340 Aph| howsoever the names be given of Delta, Crown, Cross, Chariot, 341 Aph| because many other things may depend upon it, then certainly 342 Cat| its various Colors, its Depth; also of Rocks, Mountains 343 Cat| other things that fall or descend from above, and that are 344 Des| conceive and shall presently describe, is a thing of very great 345 Aph| of natural histories in descriptions and pictures of species, 346 Aph| which in many cases I do not despise, yet my meaning plainly 347 Aph| For bodies will not be destroyed or annihilated, rather than 348 Aph| inquirer which is the ruin and destruction of a believer; viz., a brief 349 Aph| everywhere, will be presently detected and corrected by the truth 350 Aph| subtle, and for the most part determinate and organic, such as are 351 Aph| Either she is free and develops herself in her own ordinary 352 Cat| Frost, Hoar-frost, Fog, Dew, and the like.~12. History 353 Cat| Divinations.~80. History of Diagnostics, or Secret Natural Judgments.~ 354 Cat| and Drinkable; and of all Diet; and of the variety of the 355 Aph| disputes and controversies and differing opinions — everything, in 356 Aph| III~But the more difficult and laborious the work is, 357 Des| true and copious and aptly digested for the work of the interpreter 358 Cat| of Faculties; Attraction, Digestion, Retention, Expulsion, Sanguification, 359 Des| be somewhat beneath the dignity of an undertaking like mine 360 Aph| Aristotle, nor Theophrastus, nor Dioscorides, nor Gaius Plinius ever 361 Aph| in motion and leads more directly to practice. Moreover, it 362 Aph| the more ought it to be discharged of matters superfluous. 363 Cat| Reflection, Imagination, Discourse, Memory, etc.~79. History 364 Aph| industry may be roused to discover, if possible, methods more 365 Aph| emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed. Also let all those things 366 Aph| elegantly, as in a shop, and displaying them so as to please the 367 Aph| of authors, and also with disputes and controversies and differing 368 Aph| bodies, that Venus is never distant more than 46 parts from 369 Aph| nature, so that we may fairly distribute it into history of "generations," 370 Aph| the nature of things is so distributed that the quantity or mass 371 Aph| instance (if we happen to distrust the calculations of astronomers 372 Cat| History of Earth and the diversity thereof, in Substance, not 373 Cat| 79. History of Natural Divinations.~80. History of Diagnostics, 374 Aph| everything. To resume then the divisions of natural history which 375 Aph| and at the commentaries of doctors and lawyers on the other, 376 Aph| things; whereas opinions, doctrines, and speculations are without 377 Des| difference there is between the dogmas and figments of the wit 378 Aph| should be rejected, though no doubt this kind of chastity and 379 Aph| leisure for it, I mean to draw up a set of questions on 380 Aph| divide into three. For it is drawn either from mechanical arts, 381 Cat| 51. History of Sleep and Dreams.~52. History of different 382 Aph| natural virtue in these dregs, they may be extracted and 383 Cat| and of different kinds of Drink.~85. History of Sweetmeats 384 Cat| of all things Eatable and Drinkable; and of all Diet; and of 385 Cat| Years; of Floods, Heats, Droughts, and the like.~16. History 386 Cat| Regimen.~64. History of Drugs.~65. History of Surgery.~ 387 | during 388 Aph| happened in his own time or earlier; and again, whether it was 389 Aph| compared with the humbleness of earthly things) a kind of second 390 Cat| Perturbations in Earth and Sea; Earthquakes, Tremblings and Yawnings 391 Aph| running north and south, not east and west, except perhaps 392 Aph| require a texture of matter easy and obvious, such as are 393 Cat| of Man; and of all things Eatable and Drinkable; and of all 394 Aph| the ultimate struggles and efforts of matter. For bodies will 395 Aph| thinks of arranging them elegantly, as in a shop, and displaying 396 Aph| similitudes, treasury of eloquence, and such like emptinesses, 397 | else 398 | elsewhere 399 Des| have often said I must here emphatically repeat: that if all the 400 Des| widely spread that one must employ factors and merchants to 401 Aph| eloquence, and such like emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed. 402 Cat| by entrance of the Sea, Encroachments and Inundations and contrariwise 403 Aph| it may be enough here to enjoin shortly by way of precept — 404 Aph| faithful secretaries do but enter and set down the laws themselves 405 Aph| For the history of these enters into the second and third, 406 Cat| Bodies, which are neither entirely Fossil nor Vegetable; as 407 Cat| Breakings off of Land by entrance of the Sea, Encroachments 408 Des| one to help me) is hardly equal to such a province. For 409 Cat| which they contribute to the equipment of philosophy. But these 410 Aph| whereby the sense can be equipped for information of the understanding. 411 Cat| Pulses, Sneezing, Lungs, Erection, etc.~49. History of Motions 412 Aph| liberty" of nature, or the "errors" of nature, or the "bonds" 413 Des| and active philosophy be established; and then will men wake 414 Aph| have recourse to indefinite estimates and comparatives. As for 415 Aph| five parts. The first, of ether and things celestial. The 416 | ever 417 Aph| bear upon the weight of the evidence. Lastly, things which though 418 Aph| its right over nature), to examine nature herself and the arts 419 Aph| example, that the power of exciting Venus is ascribed to the 420 Cat| Seed, etc.~46. History of Excrements; Spittle, Urine, Sweats, 421 Des| great size and cannot be executed without great labor and 422 Cat| History of Athletics and Human Exercises of all kinds.~122. History 423 Aph| are to be preferred which exhibit, alter, and prepare natural 424 Aph| is of most use because it exhibits things in motion and leads 425 Aph| the understanding to be expanded and opened till it can take 426 Cat| 9. History of the Blue Expanse, of Twilight, of Mock-Suns, 427 Des| without great labor and expense, requiring as it does many 428 Aph| course of most ordinary experience and do not stand at all 429 Aph| first book) mistakes in experimenting, unless they abound everywhere, 430 Aph| several subjects, and to explain what points with regard 431 Aph| silently; they must be in express words proscribed, that the 432 Cat| Attraction, Digestion, Retention, Expulsion, Sanguification, Assimilation 433 Aph| these dregs, they may be extracted and laid up for use. In 434 Aph| west, except perhaps in the extreme polar regions. It is also 435 Aph| proportions cannot be had, let extremes be proposed, as that a weak 436 Aph| them so as to please the eye; all his care is that they 437 Cat| of Words; Motions of the Eyes, Tongue, Jaws, Hands, Fingers; 438 Aph| accustomed to old wives' fables. The time will perhaps come ( 439 Aph| and as they relate to the fabric and configuration of the 440 Aph| and ministry of man a new face of bodies, another universe 441 Aph| antipathies, with great sloth and facility both of believing and inventing.~ 442 Des| spread that one must employ factors and merchants to go everywhere 443 Aph| of nature, so that we may fairly distribute it into history 444 Cat| of all other things that fall or descend from above, and 445 Aph| experiment be trustworthy or fallacious, and also that men's industry 446 Aph| writing because they are so familiarly known; secondly, things 447 Aph| it is in fact. For that fashion of taking few things into 448 Aph| earth, those under the sun fastest. Moreover, there is another 449 Cat| different habits of Body — Fat, Lean; of the Complexions ( 450 Aph| suit granted by the divine favor and providence (whereby 451 Cat| Frame, Countenance and Features; and of the variety of the 452 Cat| of Comets.~4. History of Fiery Meteors.~5. History of Lightnings, 453 Aph| to the whole. Lastly, the fifth part of the history contains 454 Aph| belt and dagger of Orion.~Fifthly, that may perhaps be of 455 Des| is between the dogmas and figments of the wit and a true and 456 Cat| the Natures and Powers of Figures.~It may not be amiss to 457 Aph| mentioned, which would otherwise fill volumes. Nor is this all. 458 Aph| things mean, illiberal, filthy (for "to the pure all things 459 Aph| illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), 460 Cat| Eyes, Tongue, Jaws, Hands, Fingers; of Swallowing, etc.~51. 461 Aph| sugar, gunpowder, artificial fires, paper, and the like. Those 462 Cat| Vegetables.~36. History of Fishes, and the Parts and Generation 463 Cat| Gardening.~117. History of Fishing.~118. History of Hunting 464 Aph| and which will make it fitter and more convenient for 465 Cat| History of manufactures of Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Hair, and 466 Cat| Uniform Structure in Man; as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc.~ 467 Cat| History of Serpents, Worms, Flies, and other insects; and 468 Cat| as Marble, Touchstone, Flint, etc.~31. History of the 469 Cat| Islands newly appearing; Floating Islands; Breakings off of 470 Cat| and periods of Years; of Floods, Heats, Droughts, and the 471 Cat| conversion of Blood and Flower of Blood into Spirit, etc.~ 472 Cat| Roots, Stalks, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Gums, etc.~ 473 Aph| experiments should be as streams flowing from all sides into the 474 Cat| Snow, Frost, Hoar-frost, Fog, Dew, and the like.~12. 475 Cat| etc.~55. History of the Food of Man; and of all things 476 Aph| ordinary course, or she is forced out of her proper state 477 Des| a good understanding and forecast of the mark aimed at may 478 Aph| Interpretation, I have not forgotten this, but I reserve this 479 Cat| things which relate to the Form and Comeliness of the Body.~ 480 Aph| things as may suffice for the formation of true axioms. Let them 481 | former 482 Aph| themselves into various forms. Upon this history, therefore, 483 Cat| which are neither entirely Fossil nor Vegetable; as Salts, 484 Cat| Quicksilver.~28. History of Fossils; as Vitriol, Sulphur, etc.~ 485 Des| SUCH AS MAY SERVE FOR THE FOUNDATION OF A TRUE PHILOSOPHY~My 486 Des| in this way only, can the foundations of a true and active philosophy 487 Aph| obvious, such as are those four bodies which I have mentioned; 488 Aph| kind of second Scripture.~Fourthly, it would not be amiss to 489 Cat| History of Hunting and Fowling.~119. History of the Art 490 Aph| kind of sports and wanton freaks of nature and come near 491 Aph| cause of this is that a fresh bulbous root grows upon 492 Cat| History of Hail, Snow, Frost, Hoar-frost, Fog, Dew, and 493 Cat| Wood, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Gums, etc.~35. Chemical 494 | further 495 Aph| move slowest when they are furthest from the earth, those under 496 Aph| Theophrastus, nor Dioscorides, nor Gaius Plinius ever set this before 497 Cat| Horsemanship.~123. History of Games of all kinds.~124. History 498 Aph| diamond binds the magnet, garlic weakens it, that amber attracts 499 Aph| narrations, but to seek out and gather together such store and 500 Cat| Sulphur, etc.~29. History of Gems; as the Diamond, the Ruby,