THE

WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON,

BARON OF VERULAM,

VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN,

AND

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

CENTURY IX.

Or perception in bodies insensible, tending to natural

divination or subtile trials,

Of the nature of appetite in the stomach,

Page 1

9

Of sweetness of odour from the rainbow,

ibid.

Of sweet smells, .

10

Of alterations, which may be called majors,

15

16

ibid.

17

ibid.

18

Of ductile and tensile,

ibid.

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 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,

19

20

ibid.

21

ibid.

Of the altering of colours in hairs and feathers, 22

Of the difference of living creatures, male and
female,

ibid.

Of the comparative magnitude of living creatures, 23

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,

O the dulcoration of fruits,

Of the contrary operations of time on fruits and

liquors,

Of blows and bruises,

Of the orrice root,

Of the compression of liquors,

28

ibid.

29

ibid.

Of the working of water upon air contiguous, ibid.

Of the nature of air,

30

Of the eyes and sight,

ibid.

Of the colour of the sea, or other water,

32

Of shell-fish,

33

Of the right side, and the left,

ibid.

Of frictions,

ibid.

Of shadows,

Of globes appearing flat at distance,

Of the rolling and breaking of the seas,
Of the dulcoration of salt water,

Of the return of saltness in pits upon the sea-shore,

Of attraction by similitude of substance,

34

ibid.

ibid.

35

ibid.

ibid.

Of the rise of water by means of flame,

ibid.

of vinegar,

Of the influences of the moon,

Of creatures that sleep all winter,

Of the generating of creatures by copulation, and

by putrefaction,

CENTURY X.

ibid.

Of the transmission and influx of immateriate virtues, and the force of imagination,

43

Of the emission of spirits in vapour, or exhalation, odour-like,

49

38

40

41

Of emission of spiritual species which affect the

senses,

55

Of emissions of immateriate virtues, from the minds and spirits of men, by affections, imagination, or other impressions,

56

Of the secret virtue of sympathy and antipathy, 65

Of secret virtues and proprieties,

Of the general sympathy of mens spirits,

New Atlantis,

Mr. Bacon in praise of knowledge,

77

78

81

123

Valerius Terminus of the interpretation of nature:

a few fragments of the first book,
127

Filum Labyrinthi, sive Formula inquisitionis, 167

Sequela chartarum, sive inquisitio legitima de Calore

et Frigore,

PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS.

177

Inquisitions touching the compounding of metals, 187

Questions touching minerals, with Dr. Meverel's

solutions,

194

Of the compounding, incorporating, or union of

metals or minerals,

Compound metals now in use,

Of the separation of metals and minerals,

ibid.

198

199

Of the variation of metals into several shapes, bodies,

or natures,

201

206

Of the restitution of metals and minerals,

Inquisition concerning the versions, transmutations,

multiplications, and affections of bodies,

207

208

A speech concerning the recovering of drowned

mineral works,

Experiments about weight in air and water, 210

Certain sudden thoughts of the lord Bacon, set down

by him under the title of Experiments for Profit,

212

Experiments about the commixture of liquors only,

not solids, without heat or agitation, but only by

simple composition and settling,

213

A catalogue of bodies, attractive and not attractive,

together with experimental observations about