INDEX. 



Acceleration of time, 150. 

 Air, condensing of, 17. 



transmutation of, into water, 48. 



instauce of, 48. 

 the subject of sounds, 69. 

 eruptions of, 79. 

 congealing of, 179. 

 nature of, 469. 

 Airs, trials of, 411. 

 Affections, 506. 

 ^Ethiopes, 197. 



Alexander, manner of embalming, 408. 

 Aliments, change of, 44. 

 Alchemists, 159. 

 Almonds, oil of, 32. 

 Alterations of matter, 449. 

 Annihilation, impossibility of, 65. 

 Apples, experiments with, 157. 

 Appetite, nature of, 436. 

 Aristotle, excellent observation of, 56. 

 Articulation, 106. 



Artificial springs, experiment touching the making of, 13. 

 Assimilation, 55. 

 Attraction, 471. 



by similitude, 477. 

 Beauty, helps towards, 16. 

 Bees, humming of, 99. 

 Birds move after death, 198. 



quickness of motion in, 354. 

 Birth, acceleration of, 173. 

 Blood, staunching of, 43. 

 Blows and bruises, experiment touching, 467. 

 Bodies, appetite of union in, 143. 



concretion and dissolution of, 452. 



consistencies of, 449. 



liquefiable and not, 450. 



ductile and tensile, 454. 



characters of, 454. 



induration of, 51 



fixation of, 4S3. 



perfectly unmixed, 447. 



fragile and tough, 451. 



