Book, Aphorism

  1        1, L       |     essential nature of our common air, and of all bodies less
  2        1, L       |         all bodies less dense than air (which are very many), is
  3        1, LX      |           is humid; if in another, air is not humid; if in another,
  4        1, LXXXVII | impressions and alterations in the air, of bringing down and procuring
  5        1, LXXXVIII|        spirit comes with a certain air of arrogance and superiority.~
  6        1, XCIX    |            fine or coarse, akin to air or to fire, brisk or sluggish,
  7        1, XI      |          vapors and fumes, and the air itself, which conceives
  8        1, XI      |            the constitution of the air itself, without regard to
  9        1, XI      |           to the time of year.~12. Air confined and underground
 10        1, XI      |      whether dense or rare (as the air itself is), held for a time
 11        1, XII     |           the middle region of the air do not give heat; for which
 12        1, XII     |          lower down. Moreover, the air itself at the very top is
 13        1, XII     |          Olympus the rarity of the air was such that those who
 14        1, XII     |            the mouth and nose, the air being from its rarity not
 15        1, XII     |            that on this summit the air was so serene, and so free
 16        1, XII     |   suffocated by the tenuity of the air.~To the 2nd.~3. The reflection
 17        1, XII     |       subjoin as a negative to hot air the nature of air itself.
 18        1, XII     |           to hot air the nature of air itself. For we do not find
 19        1, XII     |            we do not find here any air that is warm, unless it
 20        1, XII     |            subjoin the negative of air confined in caverns during
 21        1, XII     |         summer. But the subject of air in confinement should by
 22        1, XII     |        doubt what is the nature of air in itself with regard to
 23        1, XII     |       regard to heat and cold. For air manifestly receives warmth
 24        1, XII     |            in the middle region of air, as it is called, from cold
 25        1, XII     |         formed as to the nature of air from the examination of
 26        1, XII     |            from the examination of air that is at large and exposed,
 27        1, XII     |         however, necessary for the air to be confined in a vessel
 28        1, XII     |  communicate warmth or cold to the air by its own nature, nor readily
 29        1, XII     |        protect it from the outward air, and let the vessel remain
 30        1, XII     |  confinement and separation of the air. For all air that is cut
 31        1, XII     |     separation of the air. For all air that is cut off from connection
 32        1, XII     |          connection with the outer air seems to have some warmth.
 33        1, XII     |          which there is manifestly air enclosed) are less cold
 34        1, XII     |             as that which contains air) is less cold than the liquor
 35        1, XII     |            warmth more quickly, as air, oil, and water; others
 36        1, XII     |          that the attrition of the air does not of itself ever
 37        1, XII     |            by the attrition of the air in their rapid and hurried
 38        1, XII     |      somewhat warm when they fall. Air in motion, however, rather
 39        1, XII     |           not breathe out into the air, but may mutually cherish
 40        1, XIII    |         and from liquids also, and air itself when highly heated
 41        1, XIII    |         fire, as boiling water and air confined in furnaces, some
 42        1, XIII    |          to irritation. Thus, when air or a stick is violently
 43        1, XIII    |         receives and loses heat is air; as is best seen in calendar
 44        1, XIII    |          seen in calendar glasses [air thermoscopes], which are
 45        1, XIII    |     impeded by want of a supply of air.~The lowered glass, before
 46        1, XIII    |     position I have described, the air which was dilated by the
 47        1, XIII    |            that of the surrounding air at the time of the immersion
 48        1, XIII    |          is warm or cold, that the air contracts under the action
 49        1, XIII    |          the water rising when the air contracts, and sinking when
 50        1, XIII    |           when it dilates. But the air's sense of heat and cold
 51        1, XIII    |           of the body.~39. Next to air, I take those bodies to
 52        1, XVIII   |            of animals, water, oil, air, and the rest) by mere approach
 53        1, XVIII   |       account of boiling water and air, and also on account of
 54        1, XVIII   |           rarity.~9. On account of air, which is found for the
 55        1, XVIII   |         account of the dilation of air in calendar glasses and
 56        1, XVIII   |          and the like, wherein the air evidently moves locally
 57        1, XX      |      namely, into vapor, smoke, or air.~It appears likewise in
 58        1, XX      |          of motion is best seen in air, which continuously and
 59        1, XX      |         and breaks. In like manner air is contracted by a slight
 60        1, XX      |       shown in this, that when the air is extended in a calendar
 61        1, XX      |          or mineral, water, oil or air, or any other substance
 62        1, XXIII   |            and the introduction of air. But we have made no slight
 63        1, XXIII   |      greater or less degree (viz., air and water, or air and glass),
 64        1, XXIII   |            viz., air and water, or air and glass), do when mingled
 65        1, XXIII   |          causes of this kind, that air is always required for the
 66        1, XXIII   |        will be found that (setting air and the like aside) bodies
 67        1, XXIII   |         its integral state without air.~Nor must I by any means
 68        1, XXIII   |         when wetted (that is, when air is excluded and water introduced)
 69        1, XXIV    |             is a calendar glass of air. For flame, though it manifestly
 70        1, XXIV    |    transition of water to vapor or air, does not so well exhibit
 71        1, XXIV    |   strikingly displays expansion in air, at once conspicuous, progressive,
 72        1, XXV     |           the interposition of the air become so consistent as
 73        1, XXV     |    although they are formed out of air and water, both fluids.
 74        1, XXV     |           In like manner, although air does not manifestly attract
 75        1, XXV     |        does not manifestly attract air or water water in entire
 76        1, XXV     |       water and water, and between air and air. Such clandestine
 77        1, XXV     |         water, and between air and air. Such clandestine instances (
 78        1, XXVII   |        branches are exposed to the air and sun. For if you take
 79        1, XXVII   |            forth branches into the air downward.~Again, the gums
 80        1, XXVII   |           the middle region of the air and the violent fires which
 81        1, XXXIII  |            is flame. For in water, air, stone, metal, and most
 82        1, XXXIII  | consistency. A hostile instance is air. For metal can be fluid
 83        1, XXXIII  |          but it is impossible that air should ever be consistent,
 84        1, XXXV    |          it reaches us through the air) it is far moister; the
 85        1, XXXV    |       motion, just as fire acts on air or water, by consequence
 86        1, XXXV    |           subject is the motion of air, which within the tropics,
 87        1, XXXV    |      bodies, but is shared also by air and water.~Even that property
 88        1, XXXV    |          alliance. For if there be air under the water it rapidly
 89        1, XXXV    |       water strikes and raises the air upward; not by any effort
 90        1, XXXV    |          effort or struggle of the air itself. And when it is come
 91        1, XXXV    |     surface of the water, then the air is stopped from further
 92        1, XXXV    |   separated; so that the desire of air to ascend must be very slight.~
 93        1, XXXVI   |            a little quicker in the air, especially within the tropics,
 94        1, XXXVI   |             consisting of flame or air, as most of the old philosophers
 95        1, XXXVI   |         from the upper part of the air. Likewise we occasionally
 96        1, XXXVI   |           we observe that the dark air behind a window at night
 97        1, XXXVI   |           balls, etc.) through the air. This motion the schoolmen,
 98        1, XXXVI   |            motion is caused by the air carrying the projected body
 99        1, XXXVI   |         there is no doubt that the air has something to do with
100        1, XXXVI   |           cannot be imputed to the air gathering behind the body,
101        1, XXXVI   |            time dilates itself (as air, water, and all crude bodies
102        1, XXXVI   |     compressed and troubled by the air. But the heart of the flame,
103        1, XXXVI   |        which is not touched by the air but surrounded by other
104        1, XXXVI   |      compressed by the surrounding air. Thus all flame is in the
105        1, XXXVI   |           at the vertex, where the air is antagonistic and fuel
106        1, XXXVI   |          the reason being that the air admits smoke and compresses
107        1, XXXVI   |        dream that lighted flame is air, when in fact they are substances
108        1, XXXVI   |         antagonistic action of the air.~Let this suffice for instances
109        1, XXXVII  |          divorce between them. For air is rare and mobile, not
110        1, XL      |        example, it is obvious that air and spirit, and like bodies,
111        1, XL      |       bodies; as in water more, in air less. So that to assert
112        1, XL      |            into an equal volume of air is as much as to say that
113        1, XL      |    maintain that a given volume of air can be turned into an equal
114        1, XL      |            and chiefly filled with air) does not exceed the limit
115        1, XL      |           well as I could, all the air, until the two sides of
116        1, XL      |            converted into steam or air. Then, comparing the space
117        1, XL      |           but the heat expands the air, and the cold contracts
118        1, XL      |   expansion and contraction of the air perceptible to the sight,
119        1, XL      |           but the expansion of the air depresses the water, the
120        1, XL      |         fire was formerly vapor or air in the body of the water,
121        1, XL      |           light which is latent in air when not illumined from
122        1, XL      |      observed that there is in the air itself a certain original
123        1, XLII    |       cloth or fibrous substances, air, flame, etc. But yet by
124        1, XLII    |          through an equal space of air, or through ignited silver
125        1, XLII    |     brought near the fire. And yet air contracts heat much more
126        1, XLII    |         oil and fat substances; of air, water and watery substances;
127        1, XLII    |           over exhalations of oil, air over the vapor of water.
128        1, XLII    |        sense, since the mixture of air and flame escapes the sense.
129        1, XLII    |           the mixture of flame and air in pneumatic bodies, which,
130        1, XLII    |       which do not mix with common air, but remain suspended and
131        1, XLII    |          broken and crushed by the air than admitted into or incorporated
132        1, XLII    |            to the senses in common air and other pneumatic bodies,
133        1, XLII    |            from the breaking up of air when it is dispersed in
134        1, XLII    |         raised and floating in the air; in all of which cases no
135        1, XLIII   |            a much larger volume of air; that a little incense raises
136        1, XLIII   |        every direction through the air, and pierce even, though
137        1, XLIII   |    indifferent medium (such as the air is), the action of one does
138        1, XLIII   |          carried through spaces of air so many images of visible
139        1, XLV     |         certain compression of the air, but if the compression
140        1, XLV     |       compression be increased the air does not endure it and the
141        1, XLV     |           carried down with it the air contained in its cavity
142        1, XLV     |      proportion to the cavity, the air contracted itself into a
143        1, XLV     |           it was too large for the air to yield freely, then the
144        1, XLV     |          to yield freely, then the air, impatient of greater pressure,
145        1, XLV     |            as compression of which air was susceptible, I had recourse
146        1, XLV     |          and, having drawn out the air through the hole by violent
147        1, XLV     |           took away my finger. The air, having been extended by
148        1, XLV     |       water it would have drawn in air with a hissing sound), now
149        1, XLV     |            quantities to allow the air to recover its old sphere
150        1, XLV     |          the rarer bodies (such as air) allow a considerable degree
151        1, XLVI    |        must necessarily strike the air before the flame behind
152        1, XLVI    |          upset and thrown into the air by a very small quantity
153        1, XLVII   |           again, never fall in the air but are dispersed and incorporated
154        1, XLVIII  |            be opened to let in the air; and in numberless instances
155        1, XLVIII  |           of water in swimming, of air in flying, of water in rowing,
156        1, XLVIII  |             of water in rowing, of air in the undulations of winds,
157        1, XLVIII  |      instance in the motion of the air compressed in children's
158        1, XLVIII  |          motion displays itself in air remaining in glass eggs
159        1, XLVIII  |          belongs not only to fire, air, and water, but to every
160        1, XLVIII  |         ensue a vacuum. Whereas if air when compressed had a mind
161        1, XLVIII  |            expand to the rarity of air, or stone to the rarity
162        1, XLVIII  |           or in flight through the air, there occurs no movement
163        1, XLVIII  |            and cold. For instance, air, if expanded by tension,
164        1, XLVIII  |           into minute chinks; even air itself, notwithstanding
165        1, XLVIII  |           not like the surrounding air. If therefore it meet with
166        1, XLVIII  |            not agree well with the air which is lodged in their
167        1, XLVIII  |       other moisture and eject the air. A piece of sugar too, or
168        1, XLVIII  |           does not well endure the air but prefers some other tangible
169        1, XLVIII  |         keep off pestilence in the air; corn turned and shaken
170        1, XLVIII  |           the middle region of the air, where the cold seems to
171        1, XLVIII  |           and generates new flame; air over water and watery substances
172        1, XLVIII  |           itself and generates new air; spirit, vegetable and animal,
173        1, XLVIII  |           been stated of flame and air. Moreover, the non-vital
174        1, XLVIII  |            flame is produced, more air, more spirit, more flesh.
175        1, XLVIII  |          in stone or metal than in air, owing to the unfitness
176        1, XLVIII  |          or the first turning into air, has no effect on the flame
177        1, XLVIII  |          no effect on the flame or air next generated. In like
178        1, XLVIII  |        floating and hanging in the air, which is quite untrue.
179        1, XLVIII  |          communicate itself to the air and waters. The motion of
180        1, XLVIII  |            vacuum; nor is there in air two thousand times as much
181        1, L       |           to the first, the common air, which is everywhere about
182        1, L       | excellently from the injury of the air. Nor are powders bad things;
183        1, L       |            for though they contain air mixed up with them, they
184        1, L       |           the force of the body of air round about, as we see in
185        1, L       |           them and to keep off the air and heavenly bodies. I have
186        1, L       |           of the sun and that open air which preys upon bodies,
187        1, L       |         vessels, but surrounded by air alone, there is good use
188        1, L       |           it to the bottom all the air it contained. It stood on
189        1, L       |        only does it keep the outer air from getting in (of which
190        1, L       |         the spirits of bodies, and air when rarefied by a high
191        1, L       |          imagine that the rarefied air escapes, and that its quantity
192        1, L       |      altogether a mistake. For the air is not diminished in quantity,
193        1, L       |       flame is extinguished or the air cooled. And therefore physicians,
194        1, L       |       afraid of the easy escape of air or spirits. For though it
195        1, L       |           bodies have pores, still air or spirit do not easily
196        1, L       |       nearly uniform structure (as air, water, oil, and the like),
197        1, L       |         also with the expansion of air in the glass eggs. For after
198        1, L       |            on opening the hole the air would be drawn up with a
199        1, L       |        permanent natures. For thus air can be turned into water
200        1, L       |        partly closed, but with the air entering, for putrefactions.
201        1, L       |           water and watery vapors, air, and perhaps the pure and