Qentwy H'L 
lofthem alone *, And tw.o Candies-of fitetfftgbr, will not make Things 
jlcene twice as farre olf, as onn.Tlie:€lahle 'is : protdund ? Bile itfeemeth 
j rhat che Inipreflions ,from the obitstls 0 ft he.Sen/es *,do bungle refpe&ihe- 
j ly,eiiery one with his kinde j But not in proportion, is before de- 
| monftrated: And the reafon m’ay be^beeihie the fir’ll Jmprejsim^hxch 
• is bom frinmue to. A&wt'&h&fabttk Sikwio J&tfrfx bom DarkneJJb 
\ to Lighty)i$ a greater Degree-, than ivomWeJp- NVifepfo Afore Noife, or 
I from Lejje light, to More light. And the, Kcafon of that againe may 
be- Bortnac the Aire, afrer it hath rcceiued a Charge,,doth not receiue 
a Surcharge,or greater Charge, with like Appetite, as it doth the firll 
Charge. As for the Encreafe ol'Yer-tite,- generally, what Proportion it 
beareth to the Encreafe of the Mattcr,itdS a large fidd^and to be hand¬ 
led by it lelie. u'ym ■ 
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A LL Reflections Concurrent doe make Sounds Greater • Bntifthe 
Body that crcatech, either, the Originall Sounds or th e Reflection, 
be cleane and fmooth,it maketh them Sweeter.Tryall may be made ol 
a Lute or rtollyu ith theBelly of polifhed Bralfcjin Head of Wood.We 
fee that euen in the open Aire, the wire String is Tweeter, than the 
String of GutSiknd we fee that for Reflexion, water exceiieth j As in 
M’tjicke nearc^ie water ; Or in Eccloos. 
It hath beeffryed, that a ''Pipe a little moiftned on the infide,but yet 
Co as there be no Drops left, maketh a more folemne sound, than if the 
Pipe were drie; But yet with a fweet degree of sibiUation or Purling^ As 
we touched it before in the title of Equality . The Cable is, for that all 
Things PoroiiSjbeing fuperficially wet ,and ( as it were) betweene drie 
and wet, become a little more Euen and Smooth 5 But the Purling, 
(which mull needs proceed of Inequality,) I take to be bred betweene 
the Smoothndfe of the inward Surfaceof the PipCj which is wet, And 
the Reft of the Wood of the Pipe, vato which the Wec commeth not, 
but it remaineth drie. 
In Frojiie weather, Muflcke within doores foundeth better. Which 
mav be,by reafon,nor oftheDifpofition of the Aire, but of the 
or^m^of the laflrument, which is made more Crifpe, and fo more 
porous and hollow : And wee fee that Old Lutes found better than 
,Vnr/or the fame reafon. And fo doc- Lute-Jlrings that haue beene kept 
long. 
Sound-hYil.cwiic Meliorated by the Mingling of open Aire With Pent 
Aire • Therefore Tryall may be made of a Lute or Violl with a double 
Belly 3 Miking another Belly with a Knot oner rhe Strings ; yet fo, a.-> 
there be Roome enough for the Strings, 2nd Roome enough to play 
below rhat Belly: Tnail may bemade alfo of an irijh Harpe, with a 
Concaue on both Sides * Wheteas it vfeth to habe it but on one Side. 
The doubt may be,left it Chould make too much RcfoUnding j where¬ 
by one Note would oliertake another. 
If you fing into the Hole 6fa Drumme, it maketh the singing more 
fweet. 
Experiments 
in Cenforr, 
touching Meli¬ 
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