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THE

EIGHTEENTH BOOK

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Natural Magick

Treating of things heavy and light.

Tki Phoem*.

M Anj miracles worth relating and to he contemplated do offer themselves when 1 he -gin to defer the heavy and light ; and these things may he applied to very neeeffaryand profitable uses , and ifany man shall more deeply confider these things file may invent manynew things: that may he employed for very profitable ends, 'Hgxt after these follow windInstruments , that are almost from the fame reason.

Chap. I.

That heavy things do not descend in the fame degree of gravity , nor light things ascend.

Efore I (hall come to what I intend to demonstrate* I mastpremise somethings necessary, and set down some actions ,without the knowledge whereof we can make no proof, nordemonstration. I call that heavy that descends to the Centre,and I fay it is so much the heavior the sooner it descends,contrarily; that is light that ascends from the Centre, and thelighter that ascends soonest. I say that bodies yield one tothe other, and do not penetrate one the other, as wine andwater, and other liquors r Moreover, this action must be pre-

mised, that there is no body that is heavy in its own kind, as water in the elementof water , or Air in Air. Also vacuum is so abhorred by Nature, that the worldwould sooner be pulled asunder than any vacuity can be admitted: and from this re-pugnancy of vacuum proceeds almost the cause of all wonderful things, which it maybe I (hall shew in a Book on this Subject. It is the force of vaenum that makes heavythings ascend , and light things descend contrary to the rule of Nature, so necessaryit is that there can be nothing in the world without a Body. Therefore these things

being premised,I (hall descend to somethings.And first, a most heavy body (hut up in a ves-sel, whose mouth is turned downwards into

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some liquor that is heavior, or of the samekind. I fay it will not descend. Let the ves-sel turned with the mou;h downwards, beA B filled with water, the mouth of it be-neath must be put into a broad mouth’d veflel

C

C D full of water, be it with the same liquor,

or with another that is heavior. I fay thewater will not descend out of the vessel A B.For should the water contained in the vesselAB descend, it must needs be heavior thanthe water contain’d in the broad mouth’d ves-sel C D, which I said was of the same kind or

heavior,