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Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds,
Of loudness and softness of sounds,
Of communication of sounds,
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CENTURY III.
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,
Of the lines in which sounds move,
Of the lasting and perishing of sounds,
Of the passage in interception of sounds,
Of the medium of sounds,
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Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds,
ibid.
Of mixture of sounds,
332
Of melioration of sounds,
333
Of imitation of sounds,
335
Of reflection of sounds,
Of consent and dissent between audibles and visi-
bles,
Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds
Of hindering or helping of hearing,
Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds,
Of orient colours in dissolutions of metals,
Of prolongation of life,
Of the appetite of union in bodies,
Of the like operations of heat and time,
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Of the differing operations of fire and time,
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Of motions by imitation,
353
Of infectious diseases,
Of the incorporation of powders and liquors,
Of exercise of the body, and the benefits or evils
Of clarification of liquors, and the acceleration
thereof,
Of maturation, and the accelerating thereof; and
of the maturation of drinks and fruits, 358
Of nitrous water,
377
Of congealing of air,
Of congealing of water into crystal,
Of preserving the smell and colour in rose leaves, ibid.
Of the lasting of flame,
378
Of infusions or burials of divers bodies in earth, 382
Of the affects of mens bodies from several winds, 383
Of winter and summer sicknesses,
Of pestilential years,
Of epidemical diseases,
384
Of preservation of liquors in wells, or deep vaults, 385
Of stutting,
Of sweet smells,
Of the goodness and choice of waters,
Of temperate heats under the æquinoctial,
Of the coloration of black and tawny moors,
Of motion after the instant of death,
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ibid.,
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CENTURY V.
Of accelerating or hastening forward germination,
391
Of retarding or putting back germination,
Of meliorating, or making better, fruits and plants,
CENTURY VI.
Of curiosities about fruits and plants,
419
Of the degenerating of plants, and of their trans-
mutation one into another,
424
Of the procerity and lowness of plants, and of arti-
ficial dwarfing them,
Of the rudiments of plants, and of the excrescences
of plants, or super-plants,
Of producing perfect plants without seed,
Of the seasons of several plants,
Of foreign plants,
Of the lasting of plants,
Of several figures of plants,
Of some principal differences in plants,
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Of all manner of composts and helps for ground, 445
CENTURY VII.
Of the affinities and differences between plants, and
bodies inanimate,
449
Of affinities and differences between plants and
living creatures, and of the confiners and parti-
ciples of both,
Of plants experiments promiscuous,
Of the healing of wounds,
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Of the quickness of motion in birds,
474
Of the clearness of the sea, the north wind blowing,
Of the different heats of fire and boiling water, ibid.
Of special simples for medicines,
Of Venus,
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Of the insecta, or creatures bred of putrefaction, 480
Of leaping,
484
Of the pleasures and displeasures of hearing, and of the other senses,
Of caterpillars,
Of the flies cantharides,
Of lassitude,
Of sweat,
Of the glow-worm,
Of the impressions upon the body from several pas-
sions of the mind,
Of drunkenness,
495
Of the hurt or help of wine, taken moderately, 496
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498
Of casting the skin, and shell, in some creatures, ibid.
Of the postures of the body,
499
Of some prognostics of hard winters,
500
Of certain medicines that condense and relieve the
Of teeth, and hard substances in the bodies of living
cation of bodies,
Of abundance of nitre in certain sea-shores,
515
Of bodies borne up by water,
Of fuel consuming little or nothing,
Of cheap fuel,
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Of gathering of wind for freshness,
Of trials of air,
Of increasing milk in milch beasts,
517
Of sand of the nature of glass,
Of the growth of coral,
Of the gathering of manna,
518
Of the correcting of wines,
Of bitumen, one of the materials of wild-fire, ibid.
Of plaister growing as hard as marble,
Of wounds made with brass, and with iron,
Of the flying of unequal bodies in the air,
Of water, that it may be the medium of sounds, 522
Of the flight of the spirits upon odious objects, ibid.
Of the super-reflection of echos,
523
Of the force of imagination imitating that of the
sense,
Of preservation of bodies,
Of the growth or multiplying of metals,
524
Of the drowning the more base metal in the more
precious,
Of fixation of bodies,
their desire to change,
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Of the restless nature of things in themselves, and
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