CENTURY I.

Of Straining or Percolation, outward and inward
Of Motion upon Pressure

Of Separations of Bodies liquid by weight

Of Infusions in Water and Air

Of the Appetite of Continuation in Liquids

Of Helping or Altering the Shape of the Body

Of Condensing of Air, to yield Weight or Nourishment

Of Flame and Air Commixed

Of the Secret Nature of Flame

Of Flame, in the Midst, and on the Sides

Of Motion of Gravity

Of Contraction of Bodies in Bulk

Of Making Vines more Fruitful

Of the Several Operations of Purging Medicines

Of Meats and Drinks most Nourishing

Of Medicines applied in Order

Of Cure by Motion of Consent

Of Cure of Diseases contrary to Predisposition

Of Preparation before and after Purging

Of Making Feathers and Hairs of divers colours

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378

Of Nourishment of Young Creatures in the Egg, or Womb 379

Of the Nullity and Entity of Sounds

Of Production, Conservation, and Delation of Sounds

Of Magnitude, Exility, and Damps of Sounds

Of Loudness and Softness of Sounds

Of Communication of Sounds

Of Equality and Inequality of Sounds
Of more Treble and Base Tones
Of Proportion of Treble and Base

Of Exterior and Interior Sounds

Of Articulation of Sounds

CENTURY III.

Of the Lines in which Sounds move

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Of Hindering or Helping of Hearing

Of Orient Colours in Dissolutions of Metals

Of the differing Operations of Fire and Time

Of Reflexion of Sounds

Of Consent and Dissent between Visibles and Audibles

Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Sounds

Of the Spiritual and Fine Nature of Sounds

Of Prolongation of Life

Of the Appetite of Union in Bodies

Of the like Operations of Heat and Time

Of Motions by Imitation

Of Infectious Diseases

Of the Incorporation of Powders and Liquors

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Of Exercise of the Body, and the Benefits or Evils thereof
Of Meats soon Glutting, or not Glutting

CENTURY IV.

Of Clarification of Liquors, and the Accelerating thereof

Of Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof; and of the Ma

Of Congealing of Water into Crystal

Of Preserving the Smell and Colour in Rose Leaves

Of the Lasting of Flame

Of Infusions or Burials of Divers Bodies in Earth

Of the Affects of Men's Bodies from Several Winds
Of Winter and Summer Sicknesses

Of Pestilential Years

Of Epidemical Diseases

Of Preservation of Liquors in Wells, or deep Vaults
Of Stutting

Of Sweet Smells

Of the Goodness and Choice of Waters

Of Temperate Heats under the Equinoctial

Of the Coloration of Black and Tawny Moors
Of Motion after the Instant of Death

CENTURY V.

Of Accelerating or hastening forward Germination
Of Retarding or putting back Germination

Of Meliorating, or making better, Fruits and Plants
Of Compound Fruits and Flowers

Of Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants

X Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable

CENTURY VI.

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445

Of Curiosities about Fruits and Plants

Of the Degenerating of Plants, and of their Transmutation.

one into another

501

Of the Procerity and Lowness of Plants, and of Artificial
Dwarfing them

Of the Rudiments of Plants, and of the Excrescences of Plants, or Super-plants

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509

510

Of the Affinities and Differences between Plants and Bodies
Inanimate

528

Of Affinities and Differences between Plants and Living
Creatures, and of the Confiners and Participles of both
Of Plants, Experiments Promiscuous

529

531

Of the Clearness of the Sea, the North Wind blowing

551

Of the Pleasures and Displeasures of Hearing, and of the other
Senses

561

Of the Impressions upon the Body from several Passions of the Mind

567

Of the Hurt or Help of Wine, taken moderately

Of Caterpillars

573

Of the Flies Cantharides

573

Of Lassitude

Of Casting the Skin, and Shell, in some Creatures

Of the Postures of the Body

Of Pestilential Years

Of some Prognostics of Hard Winters

Of certain Medicines that Condense and Relieve the Spirits 576

Of Paintings of the Body

Of the Use of Bathing and Anointing

Of Teeth, and Hard Substances in the Bodies of Living
Creatures

580

Of the Generation and Bearing of Living Creatures in the
Womb

Of Prohibition of Putrefaction, and the long Conservation of