212 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



Similiter, exempli gratia ; sit natiira inquisita, com- 

 municatio qualitatis, absque commistione substantive. 

 Instantia lucis clabit vel constituet imam speciem com- 

 municationis ; calor vero et magnes, alteram. Coni- 

 municatio enim lucis cst tanquam momentanea, et 

 statim perit, arnota luce original! 61 . At calidum, et 

 virtus magneticn, postquam transmissa fuerint, vel 

 potius excitata in alio corpore, luvrent et inancnt ad 

 tempus non parvuin, amoto primo movente. 



Deni(jiie magna cst omnino praerogativa instantia- 

 rum comtitutirarum ; nt (| 11.13 plurimum faciant et ad 

 definitiones, (prrcsertim particulares) et ad divisiones, 

 sive partitiones natnrarum ; do quo non male dixit 

 Plato 2 , Quod luthfiidu* nit tantfnain /(&amp;gt; Deo, &amp;lt;/ui dffi- 

 uirc et diridcrc Iit tie xciat. 



XXVII. 



Inter pnerogativas instantiarum poncmns sexto loco 

 hixtantiitx conformes, sive proportionatas ; quas etiam 

 parallelas, sive similitiidines physical, appellare consue- 

 vimiis 5 . EJTC vcro sunt, qua* ostcndunt similitiidines 

 ct coiijugationcs rerum, 11011 in formis minoribus (quod 

 faciunt inxt&amp;lt;tnti(C comtitutuce] sed plane in concrete. 

 Itaque sunt taiKjuam primi et infimi gradus ad nnio- 



(!1 Rays of light do not remain to go first into the inquiry into Na- 



in the air, while rays of Heat are ture, and to lead towards Practice, 

 detained hy it. Cf. II. 13. Inst. &quot; Conformahle Instances&quot; are 



35. facts which resemble one another 



r 2 Plato, Phjrdrus, 266 a. Tav- in some points in concretes, not in 



TO&amp;gt;V 017 e ywyf uvro? r? f pao-r))? TU&amp;gt;I&amp;gt; their more general Laws. Harvey s 



8taip(a-ea&amp;gt;v, KOI crvvayaytav, lv n u is discovery of the circulation of the 



re u&amp;gt; \eyetv re KOL cfipovelv edi&amp;gt; rt hlood from the valves in Hydraulic 



Tiva &quot;iX\ov i]yrj(Tu&amp;gt;vrai 8vvarov (is ei&amp;gt; engines and in the veins would he a 



KOI TT\ TroAXa Trf(f)vKi &amp;gt;Ta opuv, TovTw case in point. It was the analogy 



foco/co) KaroTTLo-de per* i^viov between the Human Eye and the 



wcrre dfolo. Telescope that led to the formation 



6:5 Prerogatives 6-10 are prepa- of Achromatic lenses. Cf. Adv. of 



rative (cf. infr. II. 32.), and are Learning, p. 130. 



