Book, Aphorism

 1        1, LXXXVIII|    consistency, which in wood or stone is not observed, but is
 2        1, XCIX    |          a substance of metal or stone, would have been judged
 3        1, XCIX    |        transparency on an opaque stone, or tenacity on glass, or
 4        1, XCIX    |       gold or any other metal or stone is generated, from its first
 5        1, XCIX    |     specific character, as iron, stone; and again in parts of uniform
 6        1, XI      |      bodies rubbed violently, as stone, wood, cloth, etc., insomuch
 7        1, XII     |        light, as that of iron or stone heated but not ignited,
 8        1, XII     |           others more slowly, as stone and metal. But this belongs
 9        1, XII     |        from the substance of the stone or metal; and that the attrition
10        1, XIII    |    nature originally hot. For no stone, metal, sulphur, fossil,
11        1, XIII    |      much that an ignited brick, stone, or piece of iron, when
12        1, XXVII   |          for example, in wood or stone, when it is burned or frozen
13        1, XXVII   |          and so kept down with a stone or any hard substance as
14        1, XXXIII  |        flame. For in water, air, stone, metal, and most other substances,
15        1, XLII    |         stop it, nor silver, nor stone, nor glass, wood, water,
16        1, XLII    |      heat much more quickly than stone. Such is the substitution
17        1, XLVIII  |        or wood to the density of stone, there would be no necessity
18        1, XLVIII  |         to the rarity of air, or stone to the rarity of wood, there
19        1, XLVIII  | penetrating through gold, glass, stone, everything. The fourth,
20        1, XLVIII  |    communicating its virtue from stone to iron, and from iron to
21        1, XLVIII  |          out of the rude mass of stone or wood educes, by separation
22        1, XLVIII  |        far greater difficulty in stone or metal than in air, owing