[Remember] in the 17th Essay what is said of following the Authority as a †seaman deleted Pilot steers by the needle but if by Celestial observ. he finds it to decline &c.
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[Remember] in the 17th Essay what is said of following the Authority as a †seaman deleted Pilot steers by the needle but if by Celestial observ. he finds it to decline &c.
[Remember] in the 19th Essay to illustrate the general addresse to philosophize upon difficulties pro re nata by the difference there is between an excellent Musitian & one that is only furnish'd with two or three of those Musical boxes, thatfirst 't' altered from 'w' are set to afford †certa deleted some few & determinate tunes with the turning about a key &c
[Remember] the acidity produc'd in Dowe by <the> fermentation that turns it into Leven
As also the same acidity produc'd in wine turn'd to Vinegar in soured milk, in broath too long kept &c.
[Remember] the volatile salt and spirit produc'd in & dispers'd through urine thô Hermetically seald up.
[Remember] the obvolution of saline spirits by Vinous ones in dulcifyed spirit of Nitre &c
[Remember] in the 16th Essay to enlarge the Comparison of the Drum, that serves to make a noise & calls men together to fight against one another & but has really no solidity.
[Remember] in the 16 Essay to shew, that if Aristotle had reflected but upon his own Opinions he must have discern'd, both that they supposd such Principles, which they flow'd from, and that he must admitt such Consequences which they led to.
[Remember] there also how the Nature of fire may or may not be said to be contain'd or explicated by †prop deleted its Origine, its manner of existence or subsisting, it propertys, and its operations and Effects.
Shew in the same discourse the unreasonablenesse of urgeing men to assign a Cause of that which is the first Cause of all things.
[Remember] the arbitrary division that is made and that differingly in differing Countrys of the progress of a shadow upon a sun dial, and of the motions of the sun & Planets fancied by Astronomers to be made according to certain lines Circles &c. that are but imaginary.
Consider what happens to a string tun'd to an 8th in reference to that which is struck, and what happens to glasses & liquors by vertue of the vibrations of external bodys working on the Air.