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  1 Intro|     placed two other elements of air and water, and arranged
  2 Intro|      continuous proportion—~fire:air::air:water, and air:water::
  3 Intro| continuous proportion—~fire:air::air:water, and air:water::water:
  4 Intro|         fire:air::air:water, and air:water::water:earth,~and
  5 Intro|         his mouth, nor was there air for him to breathe; and
  6 Intro|       over the elements of fire, air, earth, water, which had
  7 Intro|         world portions of earth, air, fire, water, hereafter
  8 Intro|          and the legs are in the air, and the top is bottom and
  9 Intro|      heavens there existed fire, air, water, earth, which we
 10 Intro|       neither earth nor fire nor air nor water, but an invisible
 11 Intro|          and taking the forms of air and earth, assumed various
 12 Intro|         made you familiar. Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies
 13 Intro|          to fire the pyramid, to air the octahedron, and to water
 14 Intro|         or through the medium of air or water, is decomposed
 15 Intro|          when divided by fire or air, becomes one part fire,
 16 Intro|         part fire, and two parts air. A volume of air divided
 17 Intro|       two parts air. A volume of air divided becomes two of fire.
 18 Intro|         of fire make a volume of air; and two and a half parts
 19 Intro|          two and a half parts of air condense into one of water.
 20 Intro|       elements, such as fire and air, are thrust into the interstices
 21 Intro|       And there are varieties of air, as for example, the pure
 22 Intro|         the fire passes into the air, which is displaced, and
 23 Intro|          separated from fire and air, and then congeals into
 24 Intro|       and escapes in the form of air—this in turn presses upon
 25 Intro|       only; when weak, either by air or fire, the former entering
 26 Intro|  penetrating even the triangles. Air when strongly condensed
 27 Intro|        earth into the dissimilar air, the particles of earth
 28 Intro|     there particles of earth and air, two kinds of globules are
 29 Intro|          another, for the simple air or water is without smell.
 30 Intro|      than water and thicker than air: and hence in drawing in
 31 Intro|     there is an obstruction, the air passes, but there is no
 32 Intro|         the ears by means of the air, brain, and blood to the
 33 Intro|     being kept cool by drink and air which enters through the
 34 Intro| retaining food, but not fire and air. God therefore formed a
 35 Intro|     formed a network of fire and air to irrigate the veins, having
 36 Intro|       nets and their cavities of air. The two latter he made
 37 Intro|          might still be fed with air. The cavity of the network
 38 Intro|       internal heat followed the air to and fro. These, as we
 39 Intro|  nostrils displaces the external air, and at the same time leaves
 40 Intro|      which through the pores the air which is displaced enters.
 41 Intro|    vacuum which is made when the air is exhaled through the pores
 42 Intro|          a fountain of fire, the air which is inhaled through
 43 Intro|      cooled and drives round the air which it displaces through
 44 Intro|     discoloured blood as well as air in the veins, having acid
 45 Intro|      does not receive sufficient air, and becomes stagnant and
 46 Intro|      which is the steward of the air, is obstructed, by rheums,
 47 Intro|       rheums, and in one part no air, and in another too much,
 48 Intro|         which are unrefreshed by air corrode, and other parts
 49 Intro|       distorted by the excess of air; and in this manner painful
 50 Intro|        kept in, by reason of the air bubbles, is not equally
 51 Intro|          a continual fever; when air is the agent, the fever
 52 Intro|   instead of the pure element of air. Such are the laws by which
 53 Intro|    nutritive power of water, the air which is the breath of life,
 54 Intro|         receiving an addition of air and water; because solid
 55 Intro|       not one, but two elements, air and water, which are compared
 56 Intro|          be four in number—fire, air, earth, and water. They
 57 Intro|        fire of regular pyramids, air of regular octahedrons,
 58 Intro|         to give two particles of air and one of fire. So because
 59 Intro|            4 x 2), a particle of air is resolved into two particles
 60 Intro|     rarer. This is true of fire, air, and water, which, being
 61 Intro|       densest, only a rarer: but air may become a denser or a
 62 Intro|          the effect of fire upon air, water, and earth, and the
 63 Intro|        substances; fire to fire, air to air, water to water,
 64 Intro| substances; fire to fire, air to air, water to water, earth to
 65 Intro|          3) three of them, fire, air, and water, admit of transformation
 66 Intro|       man is within him, but the air or aether of heaven is the
 67 Intro|      order.~Plato found heat and air within the human frame,
 68 Intro|       that a network of fire and air envelopes the greater part
 69 Intro|    solely by the movement of the air in and out of the body;
 70 Intro|          of the body itself. The air has a double ingress and
 71 Intro|      which is filled up by other air finding a way in through
 72 Intro|          through the pores, this air being thrust out of its
 73 Intro|       cause outwards—the inhaled air, when heated by it, having
 74 Intro|      this which enables fire and air to permeate the flesh.~Plato’
 75 Intro|        the vessels which conduct air from the mouth to the lungs;—
 76 Intro|          the network of fire and air is spoken of as a bodily
 77 Intro|      equalization in nature, the air which is breathed out displacing
 78 Intro|    breathed out displacing other air which finds a way in; he
 79 Intro|          the network of fire and air irrigates the veins. Infancy
 80 Intro|       smells must be denser than air, though thinner than water,
 81 Intro|    obstruction to the breathing, air can penetrate, but not smell.~
 82 Intro|      transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and the blood
 83 Intro|  observed that earth, water, and air had settled down to their
 84 Intro|    aether to have a place beyond air. When air seemed to go upwards
 85 Intro|         a place beyond air. When air seemed to go upwards and
 86 Intro|       and fire to pierce through air—when water and earth fell
 87 Timae|        two, God placed water and air in the mean between fire
 88 Timae|          possible (as fire is to air so is air to water, and
 89 Timae|          as fire is to air so is air to water, and as air is
 90 Timae|          is air to water, and as air is to water so is water
 91 Timae|        all the water and all the air and all the earth, leaving
 92 Timae|        birds whose way is in the air; the third, the watery species;
 93 Timae|  accretions, made up of fire and air and water and earth, and
 94 Timae|        and earth, and water, and air from the world, which were
 95 Timae|         the tempest borne on the air, and the motions produced
 96 Timae|         against something in the air; and when he is in such
 97 Timae|         and water, and earth and air, are all of them visible
 98 Timae|          of fire, and water, and air, and earth, such as they
 99 Timae|           passes into vapour and air. Air, again, when inflamed,
100 Timae|      passes into vapour and air. Air, again, when inflamed, becomes
101 Timae|       once more into the form of air; and once more, air, when
102 Timae|      form of air; and once more, air, when collected and condensed,
103 Timae|       not to be termed earth, or air, or fire, or water, or any
104 Timae|      substance becomes earth and air, in so far as she receives
105 Timae| receiving the forms of earth and air, and experiencing all the
106 Timae|          and water and earth and air had only certain faint traces
107 Timae|          and earth and water and air are bodies. And every sort
108 Timae|          of them to fire; and to air that which is intermediate.
109 Timae|          intermediate in size to air; and, again, the acutest
110 Timae|         the next in acuteness to air, and the third to water.
111 Timae|       the order of generation to air, and the third to water.
112 Timae|          perhaps in some mass of air or water, is borne hither
113 Timae|       when divided by fire or by air, on re-forming, may become
114 Timae|          part fire and two parts air; and a single volume of
115 Timae|           and a single volume of air divided becomes two of fire.
116 Timae|    contained in a larger body of air or water or earth, and both
117 Timae|          fire form one volume of air; and when air is overcome
118 Timae|          volume of air; and when air is overcome and cut up into
119 Timae|          two and a half parts of air are condensed into one part
120 Timae|         nature, and fire becomes air and air water. But if bodies
121 Timae|         and fire becomes air and air water. But if bodies of
122 Timae|       penetrates everywhere, and air next, as being next in rarity
123 Timae|       similar differences in the air; of which the brightest
124 Timae|        forth by the neighbouring air and spreads upon the earth;
125 Timae|        but into the neighbouring air; and the air which is displaced
126 Timae|        neighbouring air; and the air which is displaced forces
127 Timae|          separated from fire and air and isolated, becomes more
128 Timae|         the process changes into air, and taking this form mounts
129 Timae|    thrusts away the neighbouring air, and this being rendered
130 Timae|      vacant space whence the new air had come up; and the earth
131 Timae|     earth when compressed by the air into an indissoluble union
132 Timae|         reason:—Neither fire nor air melt masses of earth; for
133 Timae|      when weaker, then either by air or fire—the former entering
134 Timae|         But nothing can dissolve air, when strongly condensed,
135 Timae|        does to earth and fire to air (The text seems to be corrupt.),
136 Timae|       uncongenial element of the air, it would be very evident
137 Timae|       the uncongenial element of air by force and contrary to
138 Timae|      greatest amount of fire and air. Now we must conceive of
139 Timae|       the particles of earth and air which are there, they set
140 Timae|          which watery vessels of air (for a film of moisture,
141 Timae|       pure, is spread around the air) are hollow spheres of water;
142 Timae|          wide to detain fire and air; and for this reason no
143 Timae|      when water is changing into air and air into water; and
144 Timae|         is changing into air and air into water; and all of them
145 Timae|          which is passing out of air into water is mist, and
146 Timae|          passing from water into air is vapour; and hence all
147 Timae|      than water and thicker than air. The proof of this is, that
148 Timae|         filters through, but the air without the smell alone
149 Timae|      transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and the blood,
150 Timae|      produce fire and water, and air and earth—these, I say,
151 Timae|      thrust back by the external air, and rolled up underneath
152 Timae|      through earth and water and air and their compounds, nor
153 Timae|         them, but it cannot hold air and fire, because the particles
154 Timae|   together a network of fire and air like a weel, having at the
155 Timae|       weels and their cavity, of air. The network he took and
156 Timae|         for they are composed of air, and at another time he
157 Timae|      followed the passage of the air either way, never at any
158 Timae|        from us into the external air, the next point is, as will
159 Timae|           are replenished by the air which surrounds the body
160 Timae|         a circle; and again, the air which is sent away and passes
161 Timae|      outer parts are composed of air. Now we must admit that
162 Timae|         one, it drives round the air at the other, and that which
163 Timae|          grow warmer, the hotter air inclining in that direction
164 Timae|           fire, pushes round the air at the other; and this being
165 Timae|        whether discharged in the air or bowled along the ground,
166 Timae|     earth and fire and water and air, and the unnatural excess
167 Timae|     diverse kinds, mingling with air in the veins, having variegated
168 Timae|        new and tender flesh when air is present, if inflated
169 Timae|     flesh when intermingled with air is termed by us white phlegm.
170 Timae|       does not obtain sufficient air, but becomes mouldy and
171 Timae|          is the dispenser of the air to the body, is obstructed
172 Timae|          through others too much air enters, then the parts which
173 Timae|         which are unrefreshed by air corrode, while in other
174 Timae|        other parts the excess of air forcing its way through
175 Timae|        quite as much pain as the air coming in from without;
176 Timae|     communicate with the outside air, is less severe, and only
177 Timae|       the result; when excess of air is the cause, then the fever
178 Timae|      element than either fire or air, then the fever is a tertian;
179 Timae|      then by the pressure of the air emits them, was so fashioned
180 Timae|        subtle and pure medium of air, they gave them the deep