The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... flame is humid ; if in another , air is not humid ; if in another , fine dust is humid ; if in another , glass is humid . So that it is easy to see that the notion is taken by abstraction only from water and common and ordinary liquids ...
... flame is humid ; if in another , air is not humid ; if in another , fine dust is humid ; if in another , glass is humid . So that it is easy to see that the notion is taken by abstraction only from water and common and ordinary liquids ...
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... flame from the cavities of mountains . 6. All flame . 7. Ignited solids . 8. Natural warm - baths . NOVUM ORGANUM . 127.
... flame from the cavities of mountains . 6. All flame . 7. Ignited solids . 8. Natural warm - baths . NOVUM ORGANUM . 127.
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... flame . 7. Let a burning - glass also be tried with common To the 3rd . 8. Comets ( if we are to reckon these too among meteors ) are not found to exert a constant or manifest effect in increasing the heat of the season , though it is ...
... flame . 7. Let a burning - glass also be tried with common To the 3rd . 8. Comets ( if we are to reckon these too among meteors ) are not found to exert a constant or manifest effect in increasing the heat of the season , though it is ...
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... flame is in all cases more or less warm ; nor is there any Negative to be subjoined . And yet they say that the ignis fatuus ( as it is called ) , which sometimes even settles on a wall , has not much heat ; perhaps as much as the flame ...
... flame is in all cases more or less warm ; nor is there any Negative to be subjoined . And yet they say that the ignis fatuus ( as it is called ) , which sometimes even settles on a wall , has not much heat ; perhaps as much as the flame ...
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... flame in suitable matter . To the 18th . 24. On this Instance too should be made more diligent inquiry . For quick lime sprinkled with water seems to contract heat , either by the concentration of heat before dispersed , as in the above ...
... flame in suitable matter . To the 18th . 24. On this Instance too should be made more diligent inquiry . For quick lime sprinkled with water seems to contract heat , either by the concentration of heat before dispersed , as in the above ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.