Book, Aphorism

  1        1, LX    |         by abstraction only from water and common and ordinary
  2        1, XCIX  |     think alike, when one drinks water and the other drinks wine."
  3        1, XCIX  |        drunk a crude liquor like water, either flowing spontaneously
  4        1, XI    |         Quicklime sprinkled with water.~19. Iron, when first dissolved
  5        1, XII   |       them dipped in vinegar and water, and to apply them from
  6        1, XII   |          ensues a sinking of the water through warmth.~To the 2nd.~
  7        1, XII   |         but not ignited, boiling water, and the like; and observe
  8        1, XII   |         like manner sea and salt water is sometimes found to sparkle
  9        1, XII   |     first cold to the touch. The water of natural warm baths, on
 10        1, XII   |         springs, cools just like water that has been heated on
 11        1, XII   |         oil being less cold than water, and silk than linen. But
 12        1, XII   |        quickly, as air, oil, and water; others more slowly, as
 13        1, XII   |         quicklime sprinkled with water seems to contract heat either
 14        1, XII   | irritated and exasperated by the water so as to cause a conflict
 15        1, XII   |          be poured on instead of water, for oil will serve equally
 16        1, XII   |          serve equally well with water to concentrate the enclosed
 17        1, XII   |         by its heat it makes the water sink.~To the 25th.~30. Spices
 18        1, XIII  |           sulphur, fossil, wood, water, or carcass of animal is
 19        1, XIII  |     found to be hot. And the hot water in baths seems to be heated
 20        1, XIII  |       lime by sprinkling it with water, as already mentioned.~4.
 21        1, XIII  |       not easily extinguished by water.~22. I think also that the
 22        1, XIII  |       heated by fire, as boiling water and air confined in furnaces,
 23        1, XIII  |         another's heat; but warm water plunged into boiling water
 24        1, XIII  |       water plunged into boiling water cools it.~35. The continued
 25        1, XIII  |          glass vessel containing water; and let the mouth of the
 26        1, XIII  |         glass, and will draw the water upwards to a corresponding
 27        1, XIII  |           as will be seen by the water rising when the air contracts,
 28        1, XIII  |        the glass, will cause the water immediately to sink in a
 29        1, XIII  |      like; then comes wood; then water; and lastly stones and metals,
 30        1, XIII  |          plunged into a basin of water, will remain for a quarter
 31        1, XIII  |    relative; insomuch that tepid water feels hot if the hand be
 32        1, XVIII |     vegetables, skin of animals, water, oil, air, and the rest)
 33        1, XVIII |         5. On account of boiling water and air, and also on account
 34        1, XX    |         a sponge steeped in cold water or snow at the bottom of
 35        1, XX    |           vegetable, or mineral, water, oil or air, or any other
 36        1, XXIII |       and pounded. Again, simple water and water agitated into
 37        1, XXIII |          Again, simple water and water agitated into froth. For
 38        1, XXIII |        into froth. For glass and water in their simple state are
 39        1, XXIII |        whereas pounded glass and water in froth are white, not
 40        1, XXIII |         happened to the glass or water from this migration. For
 41        1, XXIII |        and that agitation of the water. We find, however, that
 42        1, XXIII |     breaking up of the glass and water into small parts, and the
 43        1, XXIII |       less degree (viz., air and water, or air and glass), do when
 44        1, XXIII |          in dissolution. For the water puts off whiteness and puts
 45        1, XXIII |         when air is excluded and water introduced) is less white
 46        1, XXIV  |   progress of expansion. Boiling water, too, on account of the
 47        1, XXIV  |        of the easy transition of water to vapor or air, does not
 48        1, XXIV  |         exhibit the expansion of water in its own body. Again,
 49        1, XXV   |          a fluid: as a bubble of water, which is a sort of consistent
 50        1, XXV   |          made of the body of the water. Of a similar kind are the
 51        1, XXV   |         house, which if there be water to follow, lengthen themselves
 52        1, XXV   |   preserve the continuity of the water; but if there be not water
 53        1, XXV   |       water; but if there be not water enough to follow, then they
 54        1, XXV   |          that best preserves the water from a solution of continuity.
 55        1, XXV   |          time when the thread of water ceases and the descent in
 56        1, XXV   |     descent in drops begins, the water itself recoils upward to
 57        1, XXV   |         a consistent pellicle of water. This, however, is much
 58        1, XXV   |    childish sport when they take water, made a little more tenacious
 59        1, XXV   |    hollow reed, and so shape the water into a sort of castle of
 60        1, XXV   |        are formed out of air and water, both fluids. All which
 61        1, XXV   |         lead, nor wood wood, nor water water. Now a clandestine
 62        1, XXV   |         nor wood wood, nor water water. Now a clandestine instance
 63        1, XXV   |        manifestly attract air or water water in entire bodies,
 64        1, XXV   |  manifestly attract air or water water in entire bodies, yet a
 65        1, XXV   |      appetite of coition between water and water, and between air
 66        1, XXV   |        coition between water and water, and between air and air.
 67        1, XXXIII|   companionship is flame. For in water, air, stone, metal, and
 68        1, XXXIII|    consistent; and so can glass; water also can be consistent,
 69        1, XXXV  |      just as fire acts on air or water, by consequence quickens
 70        1, XXXV  |        is shared also by air and water.~Even that property of light
 71        1, XXXV  |        on this point a bubble of water may be taken as an instance
 72        1, XXXV  |        if there be air under the water it rapidly ascends to the
 73        1, XXXV  |          by which the descending water strikes and raises the air
 74        1, XXXV  |       come to the surface of the water, then the air is stopped
 75        1, XXXV  |  resistance it meets with in the water, which does not immediately
 76        1, XXXV  |         the quantity and mass of water suddenly discharged by these
 77        1, XXXV  |         have been collections of water made before, and to have
 78        1, XXXV  |       dead with thirst, saw some water in the hollow trunk of a
 79        1, XXXV  |       number of pebbles till the water rose high enough for it
 80        1, XXXVI |        retreat of the waters, as water shaken in a basin leaves
 81        1, XXXVI |     bottom and falling again, as water in boiling rises and falls.
 82        1, XXXVI |       other channel in which the water can be retreating and ebbing
 83        1, XXXVI |         there is an accession of water poured out from the interior
 84        1, XXXVI |         accession to the mass of water, but the same waters (without
 85        1, XXXVI |       that even if there were in water any such desire to rise,
 86        1, XXXVI |    middle, so as to raise up the water in the middle; upon which
 87        1, XXXVI |       the sea the surface of the water is more arched and round,
 88        1, XXXVI |   coalesced into a dense body of water. Also we observe that the
 89        1, XXXVI |          dilates itself (as air, water, and all crude bodies do
 90        1, XXXVI |       not inaptly called mineral water. For quicksilver, without
 91        1, XXXVII|     bright without heat; boiling water is hot without light; the
 92        1, XL    |       diversity of bodies; as in water more, in air less. So that
 93        1, XL    |    assert that a given volume of water can be changed into an equal
 94        1, XL    |          into an equal volume of water is the same as to say that
 95        1, XL    |         of the air depresses the water, the contraction raises
 96        1, XL    |       viz., what they contain of water, oil, spirit, ash, salt,
 97        1, XL    |         which is discharged from water by the action of fire was
 98        1, XL    |        or air in the body of the water, the fact being that the
 99        1, XL    |          by the expansion of the water from the heat of the fire.~
100        1, XL    |          instance, in a basin of water.~The seventh cause, where
101        1, XLI   |         one mode of expansion in water, another in wine, another
102        1, XLII  |          stone, nor glass, wood, water, oil, cloth or fibrous substances,
103        1, XLII  |          fat substances; of air, water and watery substances; for
104        1, XLII  |       oil, air over the vapor of water. We should therefore look
105        1, XLII  | therefore look to the mixture of water and oil, which manifests
106        1, XLII  |   escapes the sense. Now oil and water, which are mingled together
107        1, XLII  |          as quicksilver, oil, or water, and likewise from the breaking
108        1, XLII  |          when it is dispersed in water and rises in little bubbles;
109        1, XLIII |       tinges a whole hogshead of water; that a little civet or
110        1, XLIII |      holes and pores of wood and water, and are moreover echoed
111        1, XLIII |          substances of glass and water so speedily, and in so wide
112        1, XLV   |       plunged it into a basin of water so that it carried down
113        1, XLV   |         and plunged the egg into water, and then took away my finger.
114        1, XLV   |        not been plunged into the water it would have drawn in air
115        1, XLV   |      hissing sound), now drew in water in sufficient quantities
116        1, XLV   |         tangible bodies (such as water) suffer compression with
117        1, XLV   |          in it, I filled it with water and then stopped up the
118        1, XLV   |       heavy hammer, by which the water was necessarily contracted
119        1, XLV   |        more effect in making the water shrink, I made use of a
120        1, XLV   |          mill or press, till the water, impatient of further pressure,
121        1, XLV   |         of compression which the water had suffered, but only when
122        1, XLVI  |       also call Instances of the Water, borrowing the term from
123        1, XLVI  |        ancients, which contained water instead of sand. These measure
124        1, XLVI  |          vessels full of wine or water upside down and then up
125        1, XLVI  |         revolved faster than the water could follow, and that the
126        1, XLVI  |       could follow, and that the water therefore first gathered
127        1, XLVI  |          see it do in a basin of water moved quickly. But this
128        1, XLVI  |       and useless phlegm, then a water containing more of the spirit
129        1, XLVI  |    spirit of wine, and lastly, a water containing more of the aroma.
130        1, XLVII |        body. Large quantities of water corrupt slowly, small ones
131        1, XLVIII|       prevent a vacuum," as when water is drawn up by suction or
132        1, XLVIII|         cupping glasses; or when water stops without running out
133        1, XLVIII|          pressure) the motion of water in swimming, of air in flying,
134        1, XLVIII|   swimming, of air in flying, of water in rowing, of air in the
135        1, XLVIII|       not only to fire, air, and water, but to every variety of
136        1, XLVIII|         itself to the density of water, or wood to the density
137        1, XLVIII|     sustain. In the same way, if water had a mind to expand to
138        1, XLVIII|   transmutation. In the same way water, if made to contract by
139        1, XLVIII|      produces no further effect; water does not penetrate into
140        1, XLVIII|         therefore glad to imbibe water or other moisture and eject
141        1, XLVIII|          if dipped at one end in water or wine, while the other
142        1, XLVIII|     above the surface, draws the water or the wine gradually upward.~
143        1, XLVIII|     daily stirring or flowing of water prevents it from putrefying;
144        1, XLVIII|       that oil does not mix with water is not simply owing to the
145        1, XLVIII|       yet mixes well enough with water. But most of all is the
146        1, XLVIII|    generates new flame; air over water and watery substances multiplies
147        1, XLVIII|          continuity is overcome. Water runs out at a crack of a
148        1, XLVIII|         holes in them, where the water rests and is kept from falling
149        1, L     |         The sinking of bodies in water has likewise the same effect,
150        1, L     |        down to the bottom of the water, as in a river or the sea,
151        1, L     |      without either touching the water or being enclosed in stopped
152        1, L     |       employed for working under water on sunk ships whereby divers
153        1, L     |   parallel to the surface of the water, carried with it to the
154        1, L     |    capable of carrying men under water for some distance. Be that
155        1, L     |        an inverted cup placed on water with a candle in it or a
156        1, L     | consequence of which is that the water is drawn up; and also by
157        1, L     |          thereby diminished, the water or flesh comes up into its
158        1, L     |      motion of the rising of the water commence till the flame
159        1, L     |      them cold sponges dipped in water. And therefore there is
160        1, L     |        fine comminution, just as water refuses to run out at very
161        1, L     |       uniform structure (as air, water, oil, and the like), being
162        1, L     |        me) when I was condensing water, as mentioned above, by
163        1, L     |         after that drawn off the water, that so I might have seen
164        1, L     |    whether on plunging them into water, as much water would be
165        1, L     |         them into water, as much water would be drawn up as there
166        1, L     |      thus air can be turned into water by condensation, and many
167        1, L     |         gathering of vapors into water under the earth, from which
168        1, L     |        and restless motion. Rose water, too, applied to the nose
169        1, L     |        others I may mention that water slightly warm is more easily
170        1, L     |      supply the inhabitants with water. And Paracelsus says that
171        1, L     |         a vessel floating in hot water, of dung, of external and
172        1, L     |          stones are dropped into water to collect the earthy parts;
173        1, L     |        is there between mercury, water and watery vapors, air,
174        1, L     |       Thus powders mix best with water, ashes and lime with oils,