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J\(aturall Hijlory : 



i Experiments 

 'Solitary tou- 

 ching the Im- 

 ■poffibility of 

 Annihilation. 

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»-r Here is nothing more Certain in Nature, than that it is impoflible for 

 A any Body, to be utterly Annihilated •, But that,as it was the work of the 

 Omnipotency of to make Somewhat of Nothings So it requireththe 

 j like Omnipotency, to turn Somewhat into Nothing. And therefore it is well 

 I faid by an Obfcure Writer of the Sect of the Chymijls that there is no fuch 

 way,to effect the Strange Transmutations of Bodies as to endeavour and urge 

 by all means, the Reducing of them to Nothing. A nd herein is contained al- 

 io a great Secret of Prefervation of Bodies from Change For if you can 

 prohibit , that they neither turn into Air , becaufe no Air cometh to 

 I them v Nor go into the Bodies Adjacent, becaufe they are utterly Hetero- 

 Igeneall-, Nor make a Bound md Circulation within themfelves h they will 

 I never change, though they be in their Nature never fo Perifhable, orMu- 

 I table. We fee how Flies and Spiders, and the like, get a Sepulcber in Am- 

 j ber, more Durable, than the Monument and Embalming of the Body o f ny 

 ! King. And I conceive the like will be of Bodies put into guick~filver. But 

 then they mult be but thin ■ As a leaf, or a peece of Paper, or Parchment 5 

 Fot if they have a greater Craflitude, they will alter in their ownBody, 

 though they fpend not. But of this , W 7 e mail fpeak 

 more, when we handle the Title of Con- 

 fervationof Bodies. 



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