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C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.

PREFACE.

THIS Volume contains the TRANSLATIONS; 1st, of the "Instauratio Magna," excepting the translation of the first book, the Treatise De Augmentis Scientiarum:" and, 2dly, of one of the Posthumous Tracts.

The contents may be exhibited as follows:

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Preparation for a Natural and Experimental History
Aphorisms on the Formation of the First History
Catalogue of Particular Histories .

BOOK III. NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY

Preliminaries

History of Winds

of Density and Rarity

of Sympathy and Antipathy

of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt

of Life and Death

BOOK IV. Scaling Ladder of the InTELLECT

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of Heavy and Light

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BOOK V. ANTICIPATIONS OF THE SECOND PHILOSOPHY

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Thoughts on the Nature of Things

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Book II. NOVUM ORGANUM.

The first edition of this work was published in folio, in 1620, when Lord Bacon was Chancellor. Editions in 12mo. were published in Holland in 1645, 1650, and 1660. An edition was published in 1779; "Wirceburgi, Apud Jo. Jac. Stahel: and an edition was published at Oxford in 1813. No assistance to this, or, as I am aware, to any part of Lord Bacon's works, has been rendered by the University of Cambridge.

VOL. XIV.

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