π Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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the coldness of the earth some concurrence or coadjuvancy
And so, as Cæsar reports, unto the ancient Britains it was piaculous to taste a Goose, which dish at present no table is without.
We first declare, that Gunpowder consisteth of three ingredients, Saltpetre, Small-coal, and Brimstone.
ice receiveth its figure according unto the surface wherein it concreteth, or the circumambiency which conformeth it
Whereof at present we have endeavoured a long and serious adviso.
the plastic or formative faculty, from matter appearing homogeneous, and of a similary substance, erecteth bones, membranes, veins, and arteries [β¦]
For by the fire they omit not only many drossie and scorious parts, but whatsoever they had received either from the earth or Loadstone;
And to this effect he maketh men believe that apparitions, and such as confirm his existence are either deceptions of sight, or melancholly depravements of phansie.
That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.
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1646
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