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pars est operis, ad inveniendum schematismum verum 

 in composite ; qui schematismus res est longe subtilior, 

 et accuratior, et ab operibus ignis potius confunditur 

 quam eruitur et elucescit. 



Itaque facienda est corporum separatio et solutio ; 

 non per ignem certe, sed per ration em et inductionem 

 veram, cum experimentis auxiliaribus ; et per compa- 

 rationeni ad alia corpora, et reductionem ad naturas 

 simplices, et earum formas, quse in composite conve- 

 niunt et complicantur ; et transeundum plane a Vul 

 can o ad Minervam, si in am mo sit veras corporum tex- 

 turas et sckematismos (unde omnis occulta atque (ut 

 vocant) specifica proprietas et virtus in rebus pendet, 

 unde etiam omnis potentis alterationis et transformatio- 

 nis norrna educitur) in lucem protraliere. 



Exempli gratia; inquirendum, quid sit in omni cor- 

 pore spiritus, quid essentise tangibilis ; atque ille ipse 

 spiritus, utrum sit copiosus et turgeat, an jejunus et 

 paucus ; tennis, aut crassior ; magis aereus, aut igneus ; 

 acris, aut deses ; exilis, aut robustus ; in progressu, aut 

 in regressu ; abscissus, aut contiuuatus ; consentiens 

 cum externis et ambientibus, aut dissentiens ; &c. Et 

 similiter, essentia tangibilis, (quac non pauciores recipit 

 differentias, quam spiritus) atque ejus villi, et fibrae, et 

 omnimoda textura. Rursus autem collocatio spiritus 

 per corpoream rnolem, ejusque pori, meatus, venae, et 

 cellulac, et rudimenta, sive tentamenta corporis orga- 

 nici, sub eandem inquisitionem cadunt. Sed et in his 



superinducunt&quot; would be the belief there is ground for caution, yet 



in the imaginary substance &quot; Phlo- Bacon s condemnation of the use of 



giston,&quot; which was supposed to be Fire and Heat is wrong. They are 



absolutely light, and to pass off instruments for experiment of the 



from Iron, when fused ; whereas in highest value : though, like all in- 



reality the increase of weight to the struments, they have their faults, 



Iron arises from the absorption of and require careful correction. 

 Oxygen from the air. So although 



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