Book, Aphorism

  1        1, XLV     |           Hence too the element of fire with its orb is brought
  2        1, XLVII   |         axioms are tried as in the fire, the intellect is altogether
  3        1, LX      |       Planetary Orbits, Element of Fire, and like fictions which
  4        1, LXIII   |          the indifferent nature of fire, and remolded into solids,
  5        1, LXXV    |         the heat of the sun and of fire are quite different in kind —
  6        1, LXXV    |          that by the operations of fire anything like the works
  7        1, LXXXVIII|         the heat of the sun and of fire differ in kind, and to that
  8        1, XCIX    |         substance by the action of fire; it turns into a liquid
  9        1, XCIX    |            out and superinduced by fire and heat and other modes
 10        1, XCIX    |           such as the operation of fire rather confounds than brings
 11        1, XCIX    |           must be effected, not by fire indeed, but by reasoning
 12        1, XCIX    |          coarse, akin to air or to fire, brisk or sluggish, weak
 13        1, XI      |           held for a time near the fire.~15. Sparks struck from
 14        1, XI      |          of wheels sometimes catch fire; and the way they kindled
 15        1, XI      |           and the way they kindled fire in the West Indies was by
 16        1, XI      |        when stacked, often catches fire.~18. Quicklime sprinkled
 17        1, XI      |         without being put near the fire. And in like manner tin,
 18        1, XII     |          and by moderns St. Elmo's Fire, no sufficient investigation
 19        1, XII     |          that has been heated on a fire. But it is true that oily
 20        1, XII     |      manifestly warmed by the sun, fire, or some other warm substance.~
 21        1, XII     |      contract warmth when put near fire. There is this difference
 22        1, XII     |         putrefaction, no less than fire; and heat contracts bodies,
 23        1, XIII    |          by flame or subterraneous fire, such as is thrown up from
 24        1, XIII    |        perhaps ashes and soot from fire, retain some latent remains
 25        1, XIII    |      sufficiently strong to set on fire or burn the driest wood
 26        1, XIII    |       itself when highly heated by fire. For the flame of spirit
 27        1, XIII    |          paper, straw, or linen on fire, which the heat of animals
 28        1, XIII    |          smelting iron, in which a fire made with fagots and boughs
 29        1, XIII    |     compounds, as gunpowder, Greek fire (commonly called wildfire),
 30        1, XIII    |         ignited but only heated by fire, as boiling water and air
 31        1, XIII    |          melted by a dead or quiet fire, till it be made intense
 32        1, XIII    |          porous, so as to give the fire room to move, if this motion
 33        1, XIII    |            strong compression, the fire is immediately extinguished.
 34        1, XIII    |   instrument, the operation of the fire instantly ceases.~33. Approximation
 35        1, XIII    |        mixed together. For a large fire and a small fire in the
 36        1, XIII    |           a large fire and a small fire in the same room increase
 37        1, XIII    |         multiplies the heat. For a fire does not warm a room as
 38        1, XIII    |            must be heated before a fire in its upper part, that
 39        1, XVI     |           of nature, not indeed by fire, but by the mind, which
 40        1, XVI     |          which is a kind of divine fire. The first work, therefore,
 41        1, XVII    |    heavenly bodies and the heat of fire seem to be very heterogeneous;
 42        1, XVIII   |            2. On account of common fire, and chiefly subterraneous
 43        1, XVIII   |        rest) by mere approach to a fire, or other hot body, reject
 44        1, XX      |         shown in the extinction of fire and heat by any strong compression,
 45        1, XX      |            all strong and vehement fire and heat; whence it is quite
 46        1, XX      |      inquiry.~Again, our notion of fire is popular, and of no use,
 47        1, XX      |            tongs or a poker in the fire. If you put it in perpendicularly
 48        1, XX      |            the plan of placing the fire not below but above, that
 49        1, XX      |         whence springs the fury of fire and heat.~This specific
 50        1, XX      |         shown also in this, that a fire burns most briskly in the
 51        1, XX      |            they are acting) act as fire does, in consequence of
 52        1, XX      |       comparison of the effects of fire with the effects of time
 53        1, XX      |     reduces to ashes, no less than fire; indeed, with an action
 54        1, XXXV    |           animals, and the heat of fire; and that these heats (especially
 55        1, XXXV    |       cherishes, while the heat of fire wastes and destroys. We
 56        1, XXXV    |     brought within a house where a fire is constantly kept up, and
 57        1, XXXV    |            may be brought about by fire, though such ripening would
 58        1, XXXV    |         the heat of the sun and of fire which cause their operations
 59        1, XXXV    |          compared with the heat of fire is far milder and softer
 60        1, XXXV    |         the heat of the sun and of fire, and one of very great moment;
 61        1, XXXV    |          whereas the operations of fire, urged on by the impatience
 62        1, XXXV    |   diligently to temper the heat of fire and reduce it to a milder
 63        1, XXXV    |    generally adopt in working with fire; he would speedily get rid
 64        1, XXXV    |          of the sun by the heat of fire. We have a similar instance
 65        1, XXXV    |         slightly warming them at a fire. So that you may easily
 66        1, XXXV    |            you may easily see that fire is no more without the power
 67        1, XXXV    |            them to motion, just as fire acts on air or water, by
 68        1, XXXV    |   sometimes hatched by the heat of fire, which thus exactly imitates
 69        1, XXXV    |         can doubt that the heat of fire may in many subjects be
 70        1, XXXVI   |         body to expand when set on fire, or partly by that and partly
 71        1, XXXVI   |        flies rapidly away from the fire and bursts violently from
 72        1, XXXVI   |       their compounds, which catch fire more quickly and easily
 73        1, XXXVI   |          salts are thrown into the fire their aqueous spirit bursts
 74        1, XXXVI   |            before the oily catches fire. But this is best seen in
 75        1, XXXVI   |         top of the stand. Then set fire to the spirit of wine. The
 76        1, XL      |          discharged by the heat of fire, they hasten so fast to
 77        1, XL      | immediately took the glass off the fire, placing it on a carpet
 78        1, XL      |            bodies are tormented by fire or other means, many qualities
 79        1, XL      |            are communicated by the fire itself and by the bodies
 80        1, XL      |        from water by the action of fire was formerly vapor or air
 81        1, XL      |         water from the heat of the fire.~So in general, all the
 82        1, XLI     |            expansion of liquids by fire. For there is one mode of
 83        1, XLI     |           boiling them over a slow fire and in a glass vessel in
 84        1, XLII    |          on being brought near the fire. And yet air contracts heat
 85        1, XLV     |      certain materials which catch fire a long way off, as we are
 86        1, XLVIII  |            annihilated. So that no fire, no weight or pressure,
 87        1, XLVIII  |          which belongs not only to fire, air, and water, but to
 88        1, L       |            For we have the heat of fire which is infinitely more
 89        1, L       |            place in indurations by fire, in the repeated quenchings
 90        1, L       |      varied than the operations of fire, as we use it now. And it
 91        1, L       |       lightning, of flame, of coal fire; of fire from different
 92        1, L       |            flame, of coal fire; of fire from different materials;
 93        1, L       |            different materials; of fire close and open, straitened
 94        1, L       |         structures of furnaces; of fire excited by blowing; of fire
 95        1, L       |        fire excited by blowing; of fire quiescent and not excited;
 96        1, L       |      quiescent and not excited; of fire removed to a greater or
 97        1, L       |       greater or less distance; of fire passing through various
 98        1, L       |          far subtler than those of fire. For wine cannot be so clarified
 99        1, L       |          cannot be so clarified by fire as it is by time; nor are
100        1, L       |          are the ashes produced by fire so fine as the dust into
101        1, L       |           mixtures precipitated by fire are far inferior to those
102        1, L       |    putrefactions, are destroyed by fire or any violent heat. Meanwhile
103        1, LI      |         self-multiplication, as in fire, and in poisons called specific,