. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. ng. And herein is contained al- p i- fo 17 99- ExperimentSoiiratjr,touching thePwrofffiAt. ,touching theImpeflibUityof *&ttnihiU- tiotlm 28 I 3\Qttural Hiflory; Co a great fccrct of Prefer vation of Bodies from change ; for if you canprohibit, that they neither turn into Air, becaufc no jir comcth to them ,nor go into the Bodies Adjacent, becaufe they are utterly Heterogeneal, normake a round and circul

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. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. ng. And herein is contained al- p i- fo 17 99- ExperimentSoiiratjr,touching thePwrofffiAt. ,touching theImpeflibUityof *&ttnihiU- tiotlm 28 I 3\Qttural Hiflory; Co a great fccrct of Prefer vation of Bodies from change ; for if you canprohibit, that they neither turn into Air, becaufc no jir comcth to them ,nor go into the Bodies Adjacent, becaufe they are utterly Heterogeneal, normake a round and circulation within themfelves ; they will never change,though they be in theirNature never fo perifhablc or mutable. We fee howFlies and spiders, and the like, get a Sepulchre in t^Amber, more durable thanthe UMonument and Embalming of the Bodj of any King. And I conceive thelikewillbeof Bodies put into Quick^-filver. Butthenthey mull be butthin, asa leaf of a pcccc of Paper or Parchment ; for if they have a greater crafli-tude, they will alter in their own Body, though they fpend not. But of this,we fhallfpeak more when we handle the Title of Confer? ation of Bodies. NATURAL *f

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