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Of Preservation of Bodies

Of the Growth or Multiplying of Metals

Of the Drowning the more Base Metal in the more Precious

Of Fixation of Bodies

Of the Restless Nature of Things in themselves, and their
Desire to Change .

CENTURY IX.

Of Perception in Bodies Insensible, tending to Natural Divination and Subtile Trials

Of Alterations, which may be called Majors
Of Bodies Liquefiable, and not Liquefiable.

Of Bodies Fragile and Tough

Of the two Kinds of Pneumaticals in Bodies

Of Concretion and Dissolution of Bodies

Of Bodies Hard and Soft

Of Bodies Ductile and Tensile

Of several Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies

Of Induration by Sympathy.

Of Honey and Sugar

Of the Finer sort of Base Metals

Of Certain Cements and Quarries

Of the Altering of Colours in Hairs and Feathers

Of the Differences of Living Creatures, Male and Female
Of the Comparative Magnitude of Living Creatures

Of Producing Fruit without Core or Stone.

Of the Melioration of Tobacco

Of several Heats working the same Effects
Of Swelling and Dilatation in Boiling

Of the Contrary Operations of Time on Fruits and Liquors

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Of the Return of Saltness in Pits by the Sea-shore .

Of the Rise of Liquors or Powders by Means of Flame

110

Of the Generating of Creatures by Copulation, and by Putrefaction

115

CENTURY X.

Of the Transmission and Influx of Immateriate Virtues, and the Force of Imagination .

117

Of the Emission of Spirits in Vapour, or Exhalation, Odourlike

Of Emissions of Spiritual Species which affect the Senses

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Of Emission of Immateriate Virtues, from the Minds and
Spirits of Men, by Affections, Imagination, or other Im-

Of the Secret Virtue of Sympathy and Antipathy
Of Secret Virtues and Proprieties

Of the General Sympathy of Men's Spirits

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NOTE.

I have not been able to procure a copy of the first edition of the Sylva Sylvarum, which was published in 1627. Wherever therefore I speak of "the original," I must be understood to refer to the second edition, which appeared in 1628. The same remark will apply to the New Atlantis, in this volume.-J. S.

SCALA INTELLECTUS