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ere are of eh ese two Periods; the one Affimilation; or abfolute 
‘Converfion and Subaétion ; the other Maturation: Whereof, the former is 
‘moft con{picuous in the Bodies of Living Greatures,in which thereis an Abfolute 
Converfiow and A fimilation of the Nourishment into the Body, atid likewife in 
the Bodies of Plants; and again, in Mctals,. where there isa full Tranfmu- 
tation. The other (which is Maturation) is feen in Liquors*and Fruits 5 
wherein there is not defired, nor pretended, an utter Converfion, but onely 
an Alteration to that Form which is moft fought for Mans ufe; as in Clari- 
fying of Drinks, Ripening of Fruits, &c. But note, thar there be two kindes 
of eAbfolute Converféons. The one is, when a Body isconverted into another 
Body which was before; as when Nourifhimencis turned into Flefh : That is 
i¢ which we call ~Afimilation. The otheris, when the Converfion isinto a Body 
‘meerly new, and which was not before ; as if Silver fhould be turned to 
Gold, or Trento Copper. And this Converfion is better called, by diftinGion cet 
Tranfmutation. 
Here are alfo divers other great alterations of Matter and Bodies, be- 
fides thofe that tend to Concodtios and (Maturation ; for whatfoever doth 
a alter a Body, asitreturneth nor again to that it was, may be called, Alte: 
‘ratio Mijor ; As when Maat is Boiled, or Rofted, or Fried, &c: or when 
‘Bread and Meatare Baked; or whenChee(e'is made of Curds, ‘or’ Butter 
| of Cream, or Coals of Wood: ot Bricks of Earth; anda numberof others. 
But to apply Notions Philofophical to Plebeian Terms; ot tofay, where the No- 
tions cannot fitly be reconciled, that there wanteth a Term or Nomenclature for 
it, (asthe Ancients ufed) they be but fhifts of Ignorance : For Knowledge will 
beever a Wandring and Indigelted thing, if it be but acommixture of afew 
Notions that areat hand, and o€eur, and not excited from fufficient number 
of initances,and thofe welicollared. ; 
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~The Confiftencies of Bodies are very’ divers c peige ‘Rare, rsigouer Pheite 
tatical ; Volatile, Fixed ; Determinate, not Determinates Hard, Soft; ‘Cleaving, 
not Cleaying ; Congelable, not Congelable ¥" Liquefiable, not’ Liquefiable; Fragile, 
| Tough ; Flexible, Tnflexible ; Tratile, or to be drawn forth’ in length, IatraGile ; 
Berciss, Solide; Equal‘and Smooth, Vnequal ; Venous and Fibrous, and with’ Grains, 
Entire, and divers others. All which to referto Heat and Cold, and Moifture 
and Drought, isa Compendious and Inutile Speculation, “But of there fee prin- 
Cipally our Abecedarium Nature, and otherwife parfum in this our Sylpa'Syl. 
yarum, Neverthelefs, in fome good part, we fhalt panels divers of them 
now prefently. ne oe) OL 
tort yi 
cauted by the Detention of the Spirits, which play within: the: Body, 
and open it. " Therefore fuch Bodies as aremore Turgid of Spirit, of that 
ave their Spirits more ftreightly imprifoned, Of again} thac hold them ber 
}Difpoficion not to Liquefie , proceedethfrom the! ‘cafie Emithié on oftthe: 
Spirits, whereby the groffet‘parts contraét’s and: therefore Bodies Fefiine of 
pirits, or which part with their Spirits’ more willitigly?! are nor Liguepiable 5 
as W ood, Clay, Freeftone, &c. Butyet even many of thofe Bodies that ‘will 
hotmelt, or willhardly melt, will notwithftanding often ; asIron in the 
Forges 
Lz and not Liquefiablé A beetd front thee elites, ‘Liquefatiow is ever | 
j ter pleafed and content, ate Liquefiable > Fot thefe three: Dipofis isions of Bodies | 
| co arreft the Emiffion of the Spirits. Anexample of ‘the firft rwo Properties |, 
is in’Metals, and of the latin Greate, Piteh; Sulphut; Batter, Waxy eo Fhe} 
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Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Allrerations 
which may be 
called Majors: 
— 8406 
Experiment 
' Solitary, 
touching 
Bodies Ligue: 
friable, and not 
Liquefiable. 
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