LIFE OF BACOX. XV 



After having enumerated all the instruments of know 

 ledge, &quot; Such,&quot; he says, &quot; is a relation of the true state of 

 Solomon s house, the end of which foundation is the know 

 ledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the 



find a difference in things buried in earth, or in air below the earth ; and 

 things buried in water. We have also some rocks in the midst of the sea ; 

 and some bays upon the shore for some works, wherein is required the air 

 and vapour of the sea. We have likewise violent streams and cataracts, 

 which serve us for many motions : and likewise engines for multiplying 

 and enforcing of winds, to set also on going divers motions. 



We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made in imi 

 tation of the natural sources and baths ; as tincted upon vitriol, sulphur, 

 steel, brass, lead, nitre, and other minerals. 



We have also great and spacious houses, where we imitate and de 

 monstrate meteors, as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of bodies, and 

 not of water, thunders, lightnings. 



We have also certain chambers, which we call chambers of health, 

 where we qualify the air as we think good and proper for the cure of divers 

 diseases, and preservation of health. We have also fair and large baths of 

 several mixtures, for the cure of diseases. 



We have also large and various orchards and gardens ; wherein we 

 do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground and soil, proper for 

 divers trees and herbs : and some very spacious, where trees and berries 

 are set, whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides the vineyards. In 

 these we practise likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating, as well 

 of wild trees as fruit-trees, which produceth many effects. 



We have also furnaces of great diversities, and that keep great diver 

 sity of heats, fierce and quick, strong and constant, soft and mild, blown, 

 quiet, dry, moist, and the like. But above all we have heats, in imitation 

 of the sun s and heavenly bodies heats, that pass divers inequalities, and (as 

 it were) orbs, progresses and returns, whereby we may produce admirable 

 effects. 



We procure means of seeing objects afar off, as in the heaven, and 

 remote places ; and represent things near as afar off, and things afar off as 

 near, making feigned distances. We have also helps for the sight, far aboVe 

 spectacles and glasses. 



We have also parks and enclosures of all sorts of beasts and birds ; 

 which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for dissections and 

 trials, that thereby we may take light what may be wrought upon the body 

 of man . 



