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501 Cat| History of Architecture generally.~109. History of Wagons, 502 Cat| from above, and that are generated in the upper region.~13. 503 Cat| 19. Natural History of Geography; of Mountains, Valleys, 504 Cat| Conception, Vivification, Gestation in the Womb, Birth, etc.~ 505 Cat| vitreous substances, and of Glass-making.~108. History of Architecture 506 Cat| Motions (if any be) of the Globe of Earth and Sea; and of 507 Aph| seeing that it is the book of God's works and (so far as the 508 Aph| swims — which nevertheless goes for a wonder and has added 509 Des| experimental history such as I am going to prescribe, no progress 510 Aph| perhaps come (after we have gone somewhat deeper into the 511 Aph| that if there remain any grains of natural virtue in these 512 Aph| are now about is only a granary and storehouse of matters, 513 Aph| this great plea or suit granted by the divine favor and 514 Aph| that a fresh bulbous root grows upon it every year, last 515 Cat| differences.~56. History of the Growth and Increase of the Body, 516 Des| to work the wrong way and guide themselves by the example 517 Cat| of Islands in the Sea; of Gulfs of the Sea, and Salt Lakes 518 Cat| Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Gums, etc.~35. Chemical History 519 Aph| of glass, enamel, sugar, gunpowder, artificial fires, paper, 520 Cat| 52. History of different habits of Body — Fat, Lean; of 521 Cat| the like.~11. History of Hail, Snow, Frost, Hoar-frost, 522 Cat| Stools, Hair of the Head, Hairs of the Body, Whitlows, Nails, 523 Cat| of Mock-Suns, Mock-Moons, Haloes, various colors of the Sun; 524 Aph| certainly as the bonds and handcuffs of Proteus, which betray 525 Aph| As for instance (if we happen to distrust the calculations 526 Des| have no one to help me) is hardly equal to such a province. 527 Aph| and much in men's mouths, having either through neglect or 528 Cat| Sweats, Stools, Hair of the Head, Hairs of the Body, Whitlows, 529 Cat| preserve the Body and the Health.~62. History Medicinal of 530 Aph| they relate," "I have heard from a person of credit," 531 Cat| Modelling, etc.~69. History of Hearing and Sound.~70. History of 532 Cat| Motions; as Motion of the Heart, the Pulses, Sneezing, Lungs, 533 Cat| periods of Years; of Floods, Heats, Droughts, and the like.~ 534 Cat| the Configuration of the Heaven and the parts thereof toward 535 Cat| variety in the aspect of the heavens caused by the medium.~10. 536 Cat| of manufactures of Flax, Hemp, Cotton, Hair, and other 537 | Hence 538 Cat| of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Herbs; and of their parts, Roots, 539 Aph| comets of whatever kind, both higher and lower. The third, of 540 Cat| History of Hail, Snow, Frost, Hoar-frost, Fog, Dew, and the like.~ 541 Des| bring them in. Besides I hold it to be somewhat beneath 542 Cat| Confections.~86. History of Honey.~87. History of Sugar.~88. 543 Cat| all kinds.~122. History of Horsemanship.~123. History of Games of 544 Aph| and flows, and at how many hours' interval; whether there 545 Aph| any other regular figure (howsoever the names be given of Delta, 546 Aph| may be compared with the humbleness of earthly things) a kind 547 Cat| Membranes, etc.~45. History of Humors in Man; Blood, Bile, Seed, 548 Aph| be sought and as it were hunted out) is a point to be learned 549 Cat| Fishing.~118. History of Hunting and Fowling.~119. History 550 Cat| History of Flame and of things Ignited.~23. History of Air, in 551 Aph| II~Natural history, which in 552 Aph| III~But the more difficult and 553 Aph| till it can take in the image of the world as it is in 554 Cat| Intellectual Faculties; Reflection, Imagination, Discourse, Memory, etc.~ 555 Aph| utility which may be derived immediately from their narrations, but 556 Aph| labor, as those which will immensely increase the mass of the 557 Aph| matter and the violence of impediments, or she is constrained and 558 Aph| for showing the nature and impression of cold. Therefore, it would 559 Aph| object and be prevented from increasing beyond bounds. But if even 560 | indeed 561 Aph| we must have recourse to indefinite estimates and comparatives. 562 Aph| but according to their indirect bearing upon other things 563 Aph| come near to the nature of individuals. They afford a pleasant 564 Des| peril. A similar reason induces me to subjoin here another 565 Aph| and subject matter of true induction. And it is this latter which 566 Aph| upon other things and the influence they may have upon philosophy.~ 567 Cat| Writing, of Sealing; of Ink, Pen, Paper, Parchment, 568 Aph| of some assistance to an inquirer which is the ruin and destruction 569 Cat| Worms, Flies, and other insects; and of the Parts and Generation 570 Des| particular figure of it, inserting sometimes as well the purpose 571 Des| object in publishing my Instauration by parts is that some portion 572 Aph| by the perverseness and insubordination of matter and the violence 573 Aph| second and third, as they are integral parts of the world, and 574 Cat| etc.~78. History of the Intellectual Faculties; Reflection, Imagination, 575 Cat| Anatomical History, or of the Internal Members of Man; and of the 576 Aph| herself and the arts upon interrogatories.~ 577 Aph| contrary; that the great oceans intersect the earth in channels running 578 Aph| it would not be amiss to intersperse observations occasionally, 579 Aph| and at how many hours' interval; whether there is any southern 580 Aph| be somewhat more closely intimate with nature, I cannot venture 581 Cat| the Sea, Encroachments and Inundations and contrariwise Recessions 582 Aph| facility both of believing and inventing.~And it is no small thing 583 Cat| will be more convenient to investigate them with reference to arts, 584 Aph| instance is not a bad one for investigating the nature of redness, seeing 585 Cat| History of Natural and Involuntary Motions; as Motion of the 586 Cat| Salt Lakes within the Land; Isthmuses and Promontories.~17. History 587 Aph| too much method produces iterations and prolixity as well as 588 Aph| IV~In the history which I require 589 Aph| IX~There are also some things 590 Cat| Motions of the Eyes, Tongue, Jaws, Hands, Fingers; of Swallowing, 591 Aph| that men may be free to judge for themselves whether the 592 Cat| Diagnostics, or Secret Natural Judgments.~81. History of Cookery, 593 Cat| all kinds.~124. History of Jugglers and Mountebanks.~125. Miscellaneous 594 Aph| they may be extracted and laid up for use. In the meantime 595 Aph| first book I treated more at large, but which it may be enough 596 Aph| bodies of civil and canonical law on one side, and at the 597 Aph| but enter and set down the laws themselves of nature and 598 Aph| commentaries of doctors and lawyers on the other, and see what 599 Cat| 106. History of working in Lead.~107. History of Glass and 600 Aph| exhibits things in motion and leads more directly to practice. 601 Cat| different habits of Body — Fat, Lean; of the Complexions (as 602 Cat| of Dyeing.~98. History of Leather-making, Tanning, and the arts thereto 603 Cat| parts, Roots, Stalks, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, 604 Cat| their course, and the like; leaving apart Nations, Provinces, 605 Aph| soon, however, as I have leisure for it, I mean to draw up 606 Cat| Boyhood, Youth, Old Age; of Length and Shortness of Life, and 607 Des| shall satisfy my intention; lest men for want of warning 608 Aph| the operative part of the liberal arts, or from a number of 609 Aph| threefold. It treats of the "liberty" of nature, or the "errors" 610 Aph| work — let him turn to the libraries; and there among other things 611 Aph| viz., of the tracts which lie between the moon and the 612 Des| to it such auxiliary and light-giving experiments as in the very 613 Cat| Fiery Meteors.~5. History of Lightnings, Thunderbolts, Thunders, 614 Cat| the Figure and External Limbs of Man, his Stature, Frame, 615 Aph| as here circumscribed and limited it should appear to some 616 Aph| scarcely so much as a straight line, except perhaps in the belt 617 Cat| History of Wagons, Chariots, Litters, etc.~110. History of Printing, 618 Aph| to be pleasant to stay or live in, but only to be entered 619 Aph| accurate information concerning local motion, which is a thing 620 Aph| the way. For example, that locusts or crabs, which were before 621 Aph| And then shall we be no longer kept dancing within little 622 Aph| among other things let him look at the bodies of civil and 623 Aph| wandering among them and looking at them as objects in themselves, 624 Cat| the Affections; as Anger, Love, Shame, etc.~78. History 625 Aph| whatever kind, both higher and lower. The third, of earth and 626 Cat| Heart, the Pulses, Sneezing, Lungs, Erection, etc.~49. History 627 Des| That, however, which is the main part of the matter I will 628 Aph| those twin bulbs. And it is manifest that this is so, because 629 Des| design, this part which is so manifold and laborious may even during 630 Cat| 30. History of Stones; as Marble, Touchstone, Flint, etc.~ 631 Cat| and of the Mines, Veins, Marcasites of the same; also of the 632 Des| understanding and forecast of the mark aimed at may suggest to 633 Cat| Valleys, Woods, Plains, Sands, Marshes, Lakes, Rivers, Torrents, 634 Aph| And therefore it is no marvel if one sinks in water and 635 Aph| superstitious history of marvels (of whatever kind) I remit 636 Aph| Moreover, it takes off the mask and veil from natural objects, 637 Des| shall perhaps be able to master that by myself; but the 638 Cat| Basket-making.~113. History of Mat-making, and of manufactures of 639 Aph| I do not despise, yet my meaning plainly is that all mechanical 640 Aph| storehouse of matters, not meant to be pleasant to stay or 641 | meantime 642 | Meanwhile 643 Aph| wide range and made to the measure of the universe. For the 644 Aph| like manner the fact that meat is sooner salted in winter 645 Cat| 66. Chemical History of Medicines.~67. History of Vision, 646 Cat| the heavens caused by the medium.~10. History of Showers, 647 Des| had met or shall hereafter meet together, if the whole human 648 Cat| in Man; as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc.~45. History of Humors 649 Cat| Imagination, Discourse, Memory, etc.~79. History of Natural 650 Des| must employ factors and merchants to go everywhere in search 651 Des| wits of all the ages had met or shall hereafter meet 652 Aph| history of air; how much one metal outweighs another — in the 653 Aph| to discover, if possible, methods more exact.~Thirdly, if 654 | might 655 Cat| thereto belonging, as of the Miller, etc.~83. History of Wine.~ 656 Aph| architecture, manufacture of mills, clocks, and the like, although 657 Des| at may suggest to men's minds other things also which 658 Des| dignity of an undertaking like mine that I should spend my own 659 Cat| Chemical History of Metals and Minerals.~34. History of Plants, 660 Aph| Therefore, it would be an utter mistake to suppose that my intention 661 Aph| aphorism of the first book) mistakes in experimenting, unless 662 Cat| Twilight, of Mock-Suns, Mock-Moons, Haloes, various colors 663 Cat| Expanse, of Twilight, of Mock-Suns, Mock-Moons, Haloes, various 664 Cat| of Painting, Sculpture, Modelling, etc.~69. History of Hearing 665 Aph| or she is constrained and molded by art and human ministry. 666 Aph| unless in a matter of great moment. And for all that concerns 667 Aph| things are pure," and if money obtained from Vespasian' 668 Cat| History of Jugglers and Mountebanks.~125. Miscellaneous History 669 Aph| current and much in men's mouths, having either through neglect 670 Aph| are placed above the sun move slowest when they are furthest 671 Aph| were before of the color of mud, turn red when baked is 672 Cat| and Sound.~70. History of Music.~71. History of Smell and 673 Cat| Bow-making, Arrow-making, Musketry, Ordnance, Cross-bows, Machines, 674 Cat| Hairs of the Body, Whitlows, Nails, and the like.~47. History 675 Aph| regular figure (howsoever the names be given of Delta, Crown, 676 Aph| derived immediately from their narrations, but to seek out and gather 677 Aph| compared with the seas is narrow and pointed toward the south, 678 Aph| For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the 679 Cat| and of their broadening or narrowing; of Islands in the Sea; 680 Cat| 120. History of the Art of Navigation, and of the crafts and arts 681 Aph| freaks of nature and come near to the nature of individuals. 682 Aph| great work it is no less necessary that what is admitted should 683 Aph| and do not stand at all in need of art.~As soon, therefore, 684 Aph| mouths, having either through neglect or from the use of them 685 Aph| too are by no means to be neglected, both because many things 686 Cat| Yawnings of the Earth, Islands newly appearing; Floating Islands; 687 | none 688 Aph| forth (as far as may be) numbered, weighed, measured, defined. 689 Aph| the history of metals; and numberless other particulars of that 690 Cat| the Natures and Powers of Numbers.~130. History of the Natures 691 Aph| natural history is as a nursing mother, accustomed to old 692 Aph| particular were stated upon oath, seeing that it is the book 693 Aph| there is not found any star oblong or triangular, but that 694 Aph| are commonly concealed and obscured under the variety of shapes 695 Aph| there is another kind of observation to be employed, which has 696 Cat| It may not be amiss to observe that, whereas many of the 697 Aph| texture of matter easy and obvious, such as are those four 698 Aph| but only to be entered as occasion requires, when anything 699 Aph| intersperse observations occasionally, as Pliny has done; as in 700 Aph| the superficial space it occupies in comparison of the waters — 701 Des| a kind of royal work. It occurs to me, therefore, that it 702 Aph| contrary; that the great oceans intersect the earth in channels 703 Cat| 89. History of Baths and Ointments.~90. Miscellaneous History 704 Des| time in a matter which is open to almost every man's industry. 705 Aph| understanding to be expanded and opened till it can take in the 706 Aph| mechanical arts, or from the operative part of the liberal arts, 707 Aph| he took it from report, oral or written (as most of Pliny' 708 Aph| artificial nature takes orders from man and works under 709 Cat| Arrow-making, Musketry, Ordnance, Cross-bows, Machines, etc.~ 710 Aph| most part determinate and organic, such as are the species 711 Des| with the completion of my original design, this part which 712 Aph| in the belt and dagger of Orion.~Fifthly, that may perhaps 713 Aph| And for all that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, 714 | otherwise 715 | our 716 Aph| air; how much one metal outweighs another — in the history 717 Des| which I may perhaps have overlooked. This history I call "Primary 718 Cat| History of Pleasure and Pain in general.~77. History 719 Cat| Touch.~75. History of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch.~76. 720 Cat| Visible.~68. History of Painting, Sculpture, Modelling, etc.~ 721 Cat| Sealing; of Ink, Pen, Paper, Parchment, etc.~111. History of Wax.~ 722 Aph| metals; and numberless other particulars of that kind are to be ascertained 723 Aph| a brief review, as in passage, of the opinions now received, 724 Aph| means have it suppressed or passed in silence, but plainly 725 Cat| History of Agriculture, Pasturage, Culture of Woods, etc.~ 726 Cat| Writing, of Sealing; of Ink, Pen, Paper, Parchment, etc.~ 727 Des| deep sleep, and at once perceive what a difference there 728 Cat| Species.~26. History of perfect Metals, Gold, Silver; and 729 Aph| several arts to greater perfection. For though this be an object 730 Cat| the body — as of Barbers, Perfumers, etc.~91. History of the 731 Des| of it may be put out of peril. A similar reason induces 732 Cat| to accidents of Times and periods of Years; of Floods, Heats, 733 Aph| within little rings, like persons bewitched, but our range 734 Aph| silence, but plainly and perspicuously set down by way of note 735 Cat| which alter the Body, and pertain to Alternative Regimen.~ 736 Cat| Cities, and such like matters pertaining to Civil life.~20. History 737 Cat| the greater Motions and Perturbations in Earth and Sea; Earthquakes, 738 Aph| her proper state by the perverseness and insubordination of matter 739 Aph| everything, in short, which is philological. Never cite an author except 740 Aph| of the due combination of physics and mathematics. And therefore 741 Cat| smaller differences.~42. Physiognomical History of the same.~43. 742 Aph| know how to regulate the pickling, but is likewise a good 743 Aph| histories in descriptions and pictures of species, and the curious 744 Aph| that the planets which are placed above the sun move slowest 745 Cat| Mountains, Valleys, Woods, Plains, Sands, Marshes, Lakes, 746 Aph| end.~And whereas in the Plan of the Work I have spoken 747 Aph| civil causes) in this great plea or suit granted by the divine 748 Aph| nor Dioscorides, nor Gaius Plinius ever set this before them 749 Aph| with the seas is narrow and pointed toward the south, wide and 750 Aph| except perhaps in the extreme polar regions. It is also very 751 Aph| it should appear to some poor-spirited person a vast work — let 752 Cat| Materials, — as Enamel, Porcelain, various Cements, etc.~126. 753 Cat| and Tiles.~103. History of Pottery.~104. History of Cements, 754 Cat| belonging, as of the Butcher, Poulterer, etc.~82. History of Baking, 755 Aph| as, for example, that the power of exciting Venus is ascribed 756 Aph| of iron, while the most powerful will raise sixty times its 757 Aph| of, not speculations; and practical working comes of the due 758 Aph| particular arts those are to be preferred which exhibit, alter, and 759 Des| come in due course to the "Preparatives" of Inquiry. I have thought 760 Aph| which exhibit, alter, and prepare natural bodies and materials 761 Des| please the Divine Majesty) be prepared and set forth, others applying 762 Aph| point to be learned from the prerogatives of instances.~ 763 Des| history such as I am going to prescribe, no progress worthy of the 764 Cat| Medicinal of those things which preserve the Body and the Health.~ 765 Aph| use of them in similitudes prevailed now for many ages (as that 766 Aph| toward its object and be prevented from increasing beyond bounds. 767 Aph| elements, not the first principles of things, but the greater 768 Cat| Litters, etc.~110. History of Printing, of Books, of Writing, of 769 Aph| appears to be faithful and probable, but superstitious stories) 770 Cat| Showers, Ordinary, Stormy, and Prodigious; also of Waterspouts (as 771 Aph| arises. For too much method produces iterations and prolixity 772 Aph| produces iterations and prolixity as well as none at all.~ 773 Cat| the Land; Isthmuses and Promontories.~17. History of the Motions ( 774 Aph| things into account, and pronouncing with reference to a few 775 Aph| not yet grown into an art properly so called, and which sometimes 776 Aph| be had, let extremes be proposed, as that a weak magnet will 777 Aph| must be in express words proscribed, that the sciences may be 778 Aph| the bonds and handcuffs of Proteus, which betray the ultimate 779 Aph| by the divine favor and providence (whereby the human race 780 Des| is hardly equal to such a province. For as much relates to 781 Cat| leaving apart Nations, Provinces, Cities, and such like matters 782 Aph| should be added in order to provoke and stimulate further inquiry, 783 Des| portion of the work, and to publish it along with that which 784 Des| PHILOSOPHY~My object in publishing my Instauration by parts 785 Cat| Motion of the Heart, the Pulses, Sneezing, Lungs, Erection, 786 Aph| For it is works we are in pursuit of, not speculations; and 787 Des| some portion of it may be put out of peril. A similar 788 Cat| of them.~38. History of Quadrupeds, and the Parts and Generation 789 Aph| of the second kind with a qualifying note, such as "it is reported," " 790 Aph| be anything doubtful or questionable, I would by no means have 791 Cat| the Mines.~27. History of Quicksilver.~28. History of Fossils; 792 Aph| found among them either quincunx or square, or any other 793 Aph| whatever kind) I remit to a quite separate treatise of its 794 Cat| of the same according to Races and Climates, or other smaller 795 Aph| other stars, or apparently radiant but globular in the middle, 796 Cat| of the Air.~7. History of Rainbows.~8. History of Clouds, as 797 Aph| definite instances do not occur readily or often, but that they 798 Aph| of testicles — when the real cause of this is that a 799 Aph| a thing of which, if it really happened, there must needs 800 Des| out of peril. A similar reason induces me to subjoin here 801 Cat| Inundations and contrariwise Recessions of the Sea; Eruptions of 802 Aph| be thought superfluous to record in writing because they 803 Aph| obtained, then we must have recourse to indefinite estimates 804 Aph| the human race seeks to recover its right over nature), 805 Aph| They afford a pleasant recreation in wandering among them 806 Aph| of the color of mud, turn red when baked is nothing to 807 Aph| investigating the nature of redness, seeing that the same thing 808 Des| inquiry is to be adapted and referred as the particular point 809 Aph| ministry. The first state refers to the "species" of things; 810 Cat| Intellectual Faculties; Reflection, Imagination, Discourse, 811 Cat| Structure, and not merely as regards Diseases and Accidents out 812 Aph| or square, or any other regular figure (howsoever the names 813 Aph| that he may know how to regulate the pickling, but is likewise 814 Cat| these things will be better regulated as the case arises.~ ~ 815 Aph| it will not be enough to reject silently; they must be in 816 Des| a province. For as much relates to the work itself of the 817 Aph| precept is that everything relating both to bodies and virtues 818 Aph| it is no small thing to relieve natural history from the 819 Aph| be compiled with a most religious care, as if every particular 820 Aph| nature, I cannot venture to rely very much on other people' 821 Aph| last year's root still remaining; whence those twin bulbs. 822 Cat| Medicinal of the Treatment and Remedies and Cures of Diseases.~61. 823 Aph| true axioms. Let them but remember this, and they will find 824 Aph| But it is always to be remembered that this which we are now 825 Aph| marvels (of whatever kind) I remit to a quite separate treatise 826 Des| I must here emphatically repeat: that if all the wits of 827 Aph| qualifying note, such as "it is reported," "they relate," "I have 828 Aph| to be entered as occasion requires, when anything is wanted 829 Des| great labor and expense, requiring as it does many people to 830 Aph| not forgotten this, but I reserve this part for myself since 831 Aph| will bear without strong resistance — in the history of air; 832 Aph| importance in very many respects.~But in the whole collection 833 Cat| and partly Violent; as of Respiration, Cough, Urine, Stool, etc.~ 834 Aph| chief part of the matter rests in this, that they who shall 835 Aph| the ruin of everything. To resume then the divisions of natural 836 Aph| this place also is to be resumed that which in the 99th, 837 Cat| Attraction, Digestion, Retention, Expulsion, Sanguification, 838 Aph| And therefore the exact revolutions and distances of the planets — 839 Aph| race seeks to recover its right over nature), to examine 840 Aph| artificial again may sometimes be rightly joined with the species, 841 Aph| kept dancing within little rings, like persons bewitched, 842 Cat| Sands, Marshes, Lakes, Rivers, Torrents, Springs, and 843 Cat| Colors, its Depth; also of Rocks, Mountains and Valleys under 844 Aph| as to take up as little room as possible in the warehouse. 845 Cat| Herbs; and of their parts, Roots, Stalks, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, 846 Aph| that they may touch and rouse the intellect and no more.~ 847 Aph| that men's industry may be roused to discover, if possible, 848 Des| said elsewhere) a kind of royal work. It occurs to me, therefore, 849 Cat| Gems; as the Diamond, the Ruby, etc.~30. History of Stones; 850 Aph| And yet I do not make it a rule that these three should 851 Aph| be composed. For the end rules the method.~ 852 Aph| intersect the earth in channels running north and south, not east 853 Cat| of manufactures of Straw, Rushes, and the like.~114. History 854 Cat| of Gulfs of the Sea, and Salt Lakes within the Land; Isthmuses 855 Aph| fact that meat is sooner salted in winter than in summer 856 Cat| Accidents of the Sea; its Saltness, its various Colors, its 857 Cat| Valleys, Woods, Plains, Sands, Marshes, Lakes, Rivers, 858 Cat| Digestion, Retention, Expulsion, Sanguification, Assimilation of Aliment 859 Aph| that my intention would be satisfied by a collection of experiments 860 Des| this kind, such as shall satisfy my intention; lest men for 861 Aph| is ascribed to the herb Satyrion because its root takes the 862 Aph| Crown, Cross, Chariot, etc.) scarcely so much as a straight line, 863 Aph| or that the stars are scattered about the sky in no order 864 Des| academies and colleges and schools of learned men, still without 865 Cat| 114. History of Washing, Scouring, etc.~115. History of Agriculture, 866 Aph| things) a kind of second Scripture.~Fourthly, it would not 867 Cat| 68. History of Painting, Sculpture, Modelling, etc.~69. History 868 Cat| of Books, of Writing, of Sealing; of Ink, Pen, Paper, Parchment, 869 Des| merchants to go everywhere in search of them and bring them in. 870 Aph| known) compared with the seas is narrow and pointed toward 871 Cat| World.~15. History of the Seasons or Temperatures of the Year, 872 Cat| History of Diagnostics, or Secret Natural Judgments.~81. History 873 Aph| For we (who as faithful secretaries do but enter and set down 874 Aph| with their varieties and sects, that they may touch and 875 Aph| lawyers on the other, and see what a difference there 876 Cat| Humors in Man; Blood, Bile, Seed, etc.~46. History of Excrements; 877 Cat| Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Gums, etc.~35. Chemical 878 Aph| their narrations, but to seek out and gather together 879 Aph| whereby the human race seeks to recover its right over 880 | seems 881 Aph| of philosophy. But how to select the more important instances 882 Aph| remain unprovided whereby the sense can be equipped for information 883 Aph| should be kept apart and separately treated. For why should 884 Cat| of them.~39. History of Serpents, Worms, Flies, and other 885 Des| by diligently and exactly setting forth the method and description 886 Aph| light person or sober and severe; and the like points, which 887 Aph| be sifted diligently and severely before they are received, 888 Aph| that the moon is within the shadow of the earth, that Mercury 889 Cat| Affections; as Anger, Love, Shame, etc.~78. History of the 890 Aph| obscured under the variety of shapes and external appearance. 891 Aph| storing up materials for ship building or the like, thinks 892 Aph| them elegantly, as in a shop, and displaying them so 893 Aph| opinions — everything, in short, which is philological. 894 Aph| be enough here to enjoin shortly by way of precept — namely, 895 Cat| Old Age; of Length and Shortness of Life, and the like, according 896 Cat| the medium.~10. History of Showers, Ordinary, Stormy, and Prodigious; 897 Aph| likewise a good instance for showing the nature and impression 898 Cat| History of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Herbs; and of their parts, 899 Aph| streams flowing from all sides into the sea of philosophy. 900 Aph| natural magic should be sifted diligently and severely 901 Cat| Diseases, and the Symptoms and Signs of them.~60. History Medicinal 902 Aph| suppressed or passed in silence, but plainly and perspicuously 903 Aph| not be enough to reject silently; they must be in express 904 Cat| History of the manufactures of Silk, and the arts thereto belonging.~ 905 Cat| of perfect Metals, Gold, Silver; and of the Mines, Veins, 906 Des| may be put out of peril. A similar reason induces me to subjoin 907 | since 908 Aph| therefore it is no marvel if one sinks in water and the other swims — 909 Aph| most powerful will raise sixty times its own weight (as 910 Des| is a thing of very great size and cannot be executed without 911 Aph| are scattered about the sky in no order at all, so that 912 Aph| yield to the sciences is slight and almost superfluous.~ 913 Aph| antipathies, with great sloth and facility both of believing 914 Aph| placed above the sun move slowest when they are furthest from 915 Cat| of Music.~71. History of Smell and Smells.~72. History 916 Cat| 71. History of Smell and Smells.~72. History of Taste and 917 Aph| obtained from Vespasian's tax smelt well, much more does light 918 Cat| of the Heart, the Pulses, Sneezing, Lungs, Erection, etc.~49. 919 Cat| like.~11. History of Hail, Snow, Frost, Hoar-frost, Fog, 920 Aph| vain-speaking and light person or sober and severe; and the like 921 Aph| root is always found to be solid and succulent, the old withered 922 Aph| manner the fact that meat is sooner salted in winter than in 923 Cat| upper region.~13. History of Sounds in the upper region (if 924 Aph| interval; whether there is any southern continent or only islands, 925 Aph| land and the superficial space it occupies in comparison 926 Aph| men should be warned to be sparing of their labor, as those 927 Aph| which I require and design, special care is to be taken that 928 Aph| that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, treasury of 929 Des| like mine that I should spend my own time in a matter 930 Cat| and Flower of Blood into Spirit, etc.~48. History of Natural 931 Cat| History of Excrements; Spittle, Urine, Sweats, Stools, 932 Aph| Plan of the Work I have spoken of the cardinal virtues 933 Aph| succulent, the old withered and spongy. And therefore it is no 934 Aph| kind are only a kind of sports and wanton freaks of nature 935 Des| has to work are so widely spread that one must employ factors 936 Cat| Lakes, Rivers, Torrents, Springs, and every variety of their 937 Aph| them either quincunx or square, or any other regular figure ( 938 Cat| and of their parts, Roots, Stalks, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, 939 Aph| ordinary experience and do not stand at all in need of art.~As 940 Aph| if every particular were stated upon oath, seeing that it 941 Aph| exact.~Thirdly, if in any statement there be anything doubtful 942 Aph| written (as most of Pliny's statements are), or rather affirmed 943 Aph| I~Nature exists in three states, and is subject, as it were, 944 Cat| External Limbs of Man, his Stature, Frame, Countenance and 945 Aph| meant to be pleasant to stay or live in, but only to 946 Aph| in order to provoke and stimulate further inquiry, as in the 947 Cat| in Iron.~101. History of Stone-cutting.~102. History of the making 948 Cat| Ruby, etc.~30. History of Stones; as Marble, Touchstone, 949 Cat| Respiration, Cough, Urine, Stool, etc.~50. History of Voluntary 950 Cat| Spittle, Urine, Sweats, Stools, Hair of the Head, Hairs 951 Aph| and gather together such store and variety of things as 952 Aph| about is only a granary and storehouse of matters, not meant to 953 Aph| man who is collecting and storing up materials for ship building 954 Cat| History of Showers, Ordinary, Stormy, and Prodigious; also of 955 Cat| and of manufactures of Straw, Rushes, and the like.~114. 956 Aph| experiments should be as streams flowing from all sides into 957 Des| the rather because my own strength (if I should have no one 958 Aph| compression air will bear without strong resistance — in the history 959 Aph| which betray the ultimate struggles and efforts of matter. For 960 Aph| material of philosophy and the stuff and subject matter of true 961 Aph| questions on the several subjects, and to explain what points 962 Aph| things which are should be subjoined an enumeration of things 963 Cat| of Glass and all vitreous substances, and of Glass-making.~108. 964 Aph| admitted should be written succinctly than that what is superfluous 965 Aph| always found to be solid and succulent, the old withered and spongy. 966 Aph| variety of things as may suffice for the formation of true 967 Des| of the mark aimed at may suggest to men's minds other things 968 Aph| causes) in this great plea or suit granted by the divine favor 969 Cat| of Fossils; as Vitriol, Sulphur, etc.~29. History of Gems; 970 Aph| salted in winter than in summer is not only important for 971 Aph| compass of the land and the superficial space it occupies in comparison 972 Aph| natural history from the three superfluities above mentioned, which would 973 Aph| done here.~Secondly, that superfluity of natural histories in 974 Aph| quantity is small and weakly supplied, because the texture of 975 Des| matter I will myself now supply, by diligently and exactly 976 Aph| would be an utter mistake to suppose that my intention would 977 Aph| would by no means have it suppressed or passed in silence, but 978 Aph| between the moon and the surface of the earth; to which part 979 Cat| of Drugs.~65. History of Surgery.~66. Chemical History of 980 Cat| Jaws, Hands, Fingers; of Swallowing, etc.~51. History of Sleep 981 Cat| Excrements; Spittle, Urine, Sweats, Stools, Hair of the Head, 982 Cat| of Drink.~85. History of Sweetmeats and Confections.~86. History 983 Aph| sinks in water and the other swims — which nevertheless goes 984 Aph| commonly derived from vulgar sympathies and antipathies, with great 985 Cat| Medicinal of Diseases, and the Symptoms and Signs of them.~60. History 986 Aph| baked is nothing to the table; but this very instance 987 | taking 988 Cat| History of Leather-making, Tanning, and the arts thereto belonging.~ 989 Cat| and Smells.~72. History of Taste and Tastes.~73. History 990 Cat| 72. History of Taste and Tastes.~73. History of Touch, and 991 Aph| obtained from Vespasian's tax smelt well, much more does 992 Cat| History of the Seasons or Temperatures of the Year, as well according 993 Aph| root takes the shape of testicles — when the real cause of 994 Aph| antiquities, and citations or testimonies of authors, and also with 995 Aph| bodies, another universe or theater of things, comes into view. 996 Aph| For neither Aristotle, nor Theophrastus, nor Dioscorides, nor Gaius 997 | thereby 998 | therein 999 Aph| ship building or the like, thinks of arranging them elegantly, 1000 Cat| Hair, and other kinds of Thread, and the arts thereto belonging.~