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whole number, to consider of the former labours and 

 collections, 1 Ave have three that take care, out of them, 

 to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more pen- y 

 etrating into nature than the former. These we call 

 Lamps. 



&quot; We have three others that do execute the ex 

 periments so directed, and report them. These we 

 call Inoculators. 



&quot; Lastly, we have three that raise the former dis 

 coveries by experiments into greater observations, ax 

 ioms, and aphorisms. 2 These we call Interpreters of 

 Nature. 



&quot; We have also, as you must think, novices and 

 apprentices, that the succession of the former employed 

 men do not fail ; besides a great number of servants 

 and attendants, men and women. And this we do 

 also : we have consultations, which of the inventions 

 and experiences which we have discovered shall be 

 published, and which not : and take all an oath of 

 secrecy, for the concealing of those which we think 

 fit to keep secret : though some of those we do reveal 

 sometimes to the state, and some not. 3 



&quot; For our ordinances and rites : we have two very 

 long and fair galleries : in one of these we place pat 

 terns and samples of all manner of the more rare and 

 excellent inventions : in the other we place the statua s 

 of all principal inventors. There we have the statua 



1 qui Inheres et collections prior es penitus introspiciunt et quasi ruminantur. 



2 The translation adds that this was only done after consultation with 

 the whole body. Quodfaciunt iwn nisi consultatione et colloquis prius hdbitit 

 cum sociis universis. 



8 Etsi nonnulla ex Us, cum consensu, interdum Regi out Senatui revekmus : 

 alia autem omnino intra noiitiam nostrum cohibemus. 



