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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Philosophical works, v. 2-3. 1887

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Longmans, 1887 - Philosophy, English

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HISTORIA VENTORUM	19

79	171

HISTORIA VITĆ ET MORTIS	229

HISTORIA DENSI ET RARI	241

PREFACE to the SYLVA SYLVARUM by ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS	325

SYLVA SYLVARUM	339

Of Clarification of Liquors and the Accelerating thereof	442

Of Making Gold	448

Of Making Herbs and Fruits Medicinable	498

Of the Degenerating of Plants and of their Transmutation	506

Of Attraction by Similitude of Substance	564

Of Drunkenness	571

Of Paintings of the Body	577

Of the Generation and Bearing of Living Creatures in	583

Of Abundance of Nitre in certain Seashores	590

Of Certain Cements and Quarries	620

Of Rotten Wood Shining	456

Of Congealing of Air	462

Of the Affects of Mens Bodies from Several Winds ON	468

Of Motion after the Instant of Death	474

Of Meliorating or making better Fruits and Plants	481

Of Compound Fruits and Flowers	492

Of the Salamander	626

Of Globes appearing flat at Distance	632

Of Creatures that Sleep all Winter	638

TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS	673

SCALA INTELLECTUS sive FILUM LABYRINTHI	687

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Title	The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Philosophical works, v. 2-3. 1887 Volume 2 of The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Douglas Denon Heath
Author	Francis Bacon
Editors	James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath
Publisher	Longmans, 1887
Original from	the University of Virginia
Digitized	Dec 4, 2008

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