Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. to , but the titles of fifty-three ofthem are preserved, and they range frompneumatic engines to ways for makingfresh water at sea, and from easier modesof whale-fishery to the invention of anartificial pavement, harder, fairer, andcheaper than marble. One idea ofWrens was a method of infusing liquorsdirectly into the living blood. This heshowed at the lodge of Wadham to hisinterested colleagues, injecting liquidwax into the veins of animals; but noth-ing came of it in the end. This mightbe said o
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. to , but the titles of fifty-three ofthem are preserved, and they range frompneumatic engines to ways for makingfresh water at sea, and from easier modesof whale-fishery to the invention of anartificial pavement, harder, fairer, andcheaper than marble. One idea ofWrens was a method of infusing liquorsdirectly into the living blood. This heshowed at the lodge of Wadham to hisinterested colleagues, injecting liquidwax into the veins of animals; but noth-ing came of it in the end. This mightbe said of the majority of the experimentsof the Invisible Philosophers. They weregroping after physical truth in a grossdarkness, and it constantly evaded them. It was probably while they met in thelodge of Wadham College that the In-visibles began their system of set themselves ill an attitude ofincessant interrogation. Some of themexamined all the existing books of science,and corrected the careless observationstherein set down. Others sought out sea-. PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM COWLEYFrom a painting by Mrs Mary Beale (1632-1697), pupil of Sir Peter Lely men, travellers, and merchants, and pro-pounded queries to them. We know whatsort of problems interested them. Amongthe earliest subjects of their inquiry werethe causes of the petrification of wood,of the eclipses of the moon, of currentsin the sea; they were curious about thefunctions of the lodestone, and those ofthe organs of human and animal they could secure correspondentsin the still mysterious tropics they sentout schedules of questions to them. Theyasked, Is there a fountain whichgushes in pure balsam in Sumatra ? andthe reply was, No. They asked, Isthere a vegetable in Mexico that yieldswater, wine, vinegar, oil, milk, honey,wax, thread, and needles? and the replywas, Yes, the cocoanut-palm. Theyasked, How do the master workmen ofPegu add to the color of their rubies?but to this query they received no re
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