Book, Aphorism

  1        1, XV      |    notions; much less are Heavy, Light, Dense, Rare, Moist, Dry,
  2        1, XLII    |       refracts and discolors the light of nature, owing either
  3        1, XLIX    |          understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion
  4        1, XLIX    |           from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance
  5        1, L       |      searched out and brought to light, nothing great can be achieved
  6        1, LVI     |       unstable thing, but in the light of nature and experience,
  7        1, LX      |          of the sense) as heavy, light, rare, dense, and the like.
  8        1, LXIV    |       its foundations not in the light of common notions (which
  9        1, LXIV    |          a faint and superficial light, is yet in a manner universal,
 10        1, LXX     |          day of creation created light only, giving to that work
 11        1, LXX     |          seek for experiments of Light, not for experiments of
 12        1, LXXI    |      down to us things which are light and puffed up, but letting
 13        1, LXXIV   |        founded on nature and the light of experience, we see the
 14        1, LXXXI   |       assurance of works and new light of axioms. If then the end
 15        1, LXXXII  |     better wait for daylight, or light a candle, and then go. But
 16        1, LXXXIV  |  discovered which may let in new light upon philosophy. And surely
 17        1, LXXXVIII|         have not been brought to light, when men have been contented
 18        1, XC      |          new motion and from new light is not the same. In matters
 19        1, XCIX    |         lucifera, experiments of light, to distinguish them from
 20        1, XCIX    |      from that; but from the new light of axioms, which having
 21        1, XCIX    | revolution of many ages, come to light of themselves, just as the
 22        1, XCIX    |        be deduced and brought to light.~CXI~There is another ground
 23        1, XCIX    |  heavenly bodies, of heat, cold, light, hardness, softness, rarity,
 24        1, XCIX    |          anything new brought to light, unless the causes of common
 25        1, XCIX    |     sometimes emanates excellent light and information. But enough
 26        1, XCIX    |       seeking for experiments of light, not for experiments of
 27        1, XCIX    |        on the first day produced light only, and assigned to it
 28        1, XCIX    |          same as to suppose that light is of no use, because it
 29        1, XCIX    |       examined and defined is as light: it gives entrance to all
 30        1, XCIX    |        And the scattered rays of light itself, until they are made
 31        1, XCIX    |          must be sought from the light of nature, not fetched back
 32        1, XCIX    |       than for heat and cold, or light, or vegetation, or the like.
 33        1, XCIX    |     whole truth), as the uses of light are infinite in enabling
 34        1, XCIX    |        the very beholding of the light is itself a more excellent
 35        1, XCIX    |        strength, beauty, wealth, light itself, and the rest. Only
 36        1, XCIX    | therefore to detect and bring to light things never yet done, and
 37        1, XCIX    |         if we intend to bring to light the true textures and configurations
 38        1, XCIX    |  configuration, a true and clear light is shed by the primary axioms
 39        1, XII     |       that does not emit rays or light, as that of iron or stone
 40        1, XII     |          coruscations which give light but do not burn. And these
 41        1, XIII    |        suppose, comes flame from light and porous vegetable matter,
 42        1, XIII    |       this is the case also with light; for the nearer an object
 43        1, XIII    |         object is brought to the light, the more visible it becomes.~
 44        1, XIII    |        this is not the case with light; for a lamp or candle gives
 45        1, XIII    |          or candle gives no more light after it has been long lighted
 46        1, XVI     |        remain at the bottom, all light opinions vanishing into
 47        1, XVII    |          simple nature, as heat, light, weight, in every kind of
 48        1, XVII    |      form of heat or the form of light is the same thing as the
 49        1, XVII    |        law of heat or the law of light. Nor indeed do I ever allow
 50        1, XVIII   |     ignition or red heat, reject light or brightness.~6. On account
 51        1, XVIII   |          of the sun, also reject light and brightness.~7. By a
 52        1, XVIII   |          less heat), also reject light and brightness.~8. On account
 53        1, XXII    |     modification of the image of light received upon the object,
 54        1, XXIII   |        refraction of the rays of light.~But an example must at
 55        1, XXVI    |       substance. The instance of light will give or constitute
 56        1, XXVI    |         For the communication of light is momentaneous, and ceases
 57        1, XXVI    |          removal of the original light. But heat and the virtue
 58        1, XXXI    |         observe) been brought to light, not by small elaborations
 59        1, XXXII   |    reception of the dry and pure light of true ideas.~Moreover
 60        1, XXXIII  |          be far from bringing to light the form of the nature under
 61        1, XXXV    |         which they call heavy or light, being indeed placed out
 62        1, XXXV    |    congregations of their likes; light bodies upward toward the
 63        1, XXXV    |     water.~Even that property of light substances, viz., that they
 64        1, XXXV    |    center of the earth, rare and light toward the circumference
 65        1, XXXV    |      safe division which regards light as primarily visible, and
 66        1, XXXV    |       and cannot be seen without light, so that it appears to be
 67        1, XXXV    |         image or modification of light. And yet there appear to
 68        1, XXXV    |         a color primarily giving light, in the other a light verging
 69        1, XXXV    |     giving light, in the other a light verging on color.~
 70        1, XXXVI   |      instances afford very great light and are of high authority,
 71        1, XXXVI   |        rays of the sun; nor does light seem to be reflected except
 72        1, XXXVI   |     window at night reflects the light of a candle, just as a dense
 73        1, XXXVI   |       set down as certain — that light on an even body is always
 74        1, XXXVI   |        produced the flame, as in light, sound, and the motion called "
 75        1, XXXVI   |    fingerpost and experiments of light, and not by probable reasonings.~
 76        1, XXXVII  |     boiling water is hot without light; the motion of an iron needle
 77        1, XXXVII  |        the distances. In rays of light, indeed, and sounds, and
 78        1, XXXIX   |         this the inequalities of light and shade in the moon are
 79        1, XL      |        in many ways, as well for light of information as for direction
 80        1, XL      |       the sense of a dog; of the light which is latent in air when
 81        1, XL      |        itself a certain original light, though faint and weak,
 82        1, XL      |      animals to whose sense this light is adapted see in the dark,
 83        1, XL      |  believed they do either without light, or by a light within.~Observe
 84        1, XL      |    either without light, or by a light within.~Observe also that
 85        1, XLIII   |  distinctness and velocity; that light and color pass through the
 86        1, XLIII   |         of the same kind; as the light of the sun extinguishes
 87        1, XLV     |        Lastly, the radiations of light and impressions of sound
 88        1, XLV     |      took a small bell of metal, light and thin, such as is used
 89        1, XLV     |         on which the bell was to light. I found then that if the
 90        1, XLVI    |      bodies to the earth, and of light bodies toward the heavens,
 91        1, XLVI    |       there is no doubt that the light of heavenly bodies exceeds
 92        1, XLVI    |          whiteness, but also the light of every flame that is known
 93        1, XLVI    |          seems, to the motion of light being more rapid than that
 94        1, XLVII   |       slight sprinkling another. Light dews, again, never fall
 95        1, XLVIII  |      view this connection in the light of a gam (whence the term),
 96        1, XLVIII  |          the globe of the earth, light to the compass of the heaven.
 97        1, XLVIII  |         three things: in rays of light, in the percussions of sounds,
 98        1, XLVIII  |  influence. For if you take away light, colors and its other images
 99        1, XLVIII  |     medium. For one medium suits light, another sound, another
100        1, L       |      investigated and brought to light. For it will then be time
101        1, L       |          may possibly shed great light on other consents also which