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... metal whose purity is to be examined , and an equal weight of the same metal known to be free from all alloy . Place them in the scales of an accurate balance , and when they are in equilibrium , immerse both scales in water . It will ...
... metal whose purity is to be examined , and an equal weight of the same metal known to be free from all alloy . Place them in the scales of an accurate balance , and when they are in equilibrium , immerse both scales in water . It will ...
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... metals as weighed in air and in water , which constitute in effect a table of specific gravities . For some reason or other , they almost all err in the same direction , making the substances to which they relate appear lighter than ...
... metals as weighed in air and in water , which constitute in effect a table of specific gravities . For some reason or other , they almost all err in the same direction , making the substances to which they relate appear lighter than ...
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... metal which is to be examined . Ghetaldus's , on the contrary , is free from this condition , which would in many cases make the other methods wholly useless . But Bacon's , so far from being an improvement on any of those which had ...
... metal which is to be examined . Ghetaldus's , on the contrary , is free from this condition , which would in many cases make the other methods wholly useless . But Bacon's , so far from being an improvement on any of those which had ...
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... metal , & c . ) is pressed , there is an inward tumult in the parts thereof , seeking to deliver themselves from the com- pression . And this is the cause of all violent motion . Wherein it is strange in the highest degree , that this ...
... metal , & c . ) is pressed , there is an inward tumult in the parts thereof , seeking to deliver themselves from the com- pression . And this is the cause of all violent motion . Wherein it is strange in the highest degree , that this ...
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... most other bodies ; as metals , stone , glass ; and they are longer in heating than softer bodies . And it is certain , that Earth , Dense , Tangible , hold all of the nature of cold . The cause is , for that all 370 NATURAL HISTORY .
... most other bodies ; as metals , stone , glass ; and they are longer in heating than softer bodies . And it is certain , that Earth , Dense , Tangible , hold all of the nature of cold . The cause is , for that all 370 NATURAL HISTORY .
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Página 419 - Generally the straight line hath the cleanest and roundest sound, and the crooked, the more hoarse and jarring. 222. OF a sinuous pipe that may have some four flexions, trial would be made. Likewise of a pipe made like a cross, open in the midst.
Página 660 - Trials likewise would be made upon plants, and that diligently : as if you should tell a man, that such a tree would die this year ; and will him at these and these times to go unto it, to see how it thriveth.
Página 578 - THE Turks have a pretty art of chambletting of paper, which is not with us in use. They take divers oiled colours, and put them severally, in drops, upon water, and stir the water lightly, and then wet their paper, being of some thickness, with it, and the paper will be waved and veined, like chamblet or marble.
Página 670 - The English ambassador's lady, who was a woman far from superstition, told me one day, she would help me away with my warts : whereupon she got a piece of lard with the skin on and rubbed the warts all over with the fat side ; and amongst the rest...
Página 670 - The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again: but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Página 670 - I had had from my childhood : then she nailed the piece of lard, with the fat towards the sun, upon a post of her chamber window, which was to the south. The success was, that within five weeks space all the warts went quite away : and that wart tohich I had so long endured, for company.
Página 602 - ... naphtha of Babylon, a great distance off. It is therefore a subject of a very noble enquiry, to enquire of the more subtile perceptions; for it is another key to open nature, as well as the sense; and sometimes better. And besides, it is a principal means of natural divination; for that which in these perceptions appeareth early, in the great effects cometh long after.
Página 602 - IT is certain that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate...
Página 645 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination.