great observation this motion of wind in sail of ship have three chief head  and fountain of its impulsion or drive forward from whence it flow and derive  whence also precept may be take to increase and strengthen it the first spring  come from the quantity of the wind which be receive for questionless more wind  help more than less wherefore the quantity of wind must be careful procure  which will be do if like wise house holder we be good husband and take care  nothing be steal from we wherefore we must be very careful that no wind may be  lose the wind blow either above the ship or below they to the very superficies  and surface of the sea and as provident man use to look most after the least  thing for the great no man can choose but look after so we will first look  after these low wind which questionless can perform so much as the high as  concern the wind which blow chief about the side of the ship and under their  sail it be the office of the main boar spirit sail which lie low and slope to  gather they into it that there may be no waste nor loss of wind and this of it  self do good and hinder not the wind which fill the other sail and about this  I do not see what can be do more by the industry of man unless they shall  perchance fix such low sail out of the middle of the ship like wing or feather  two on each side when the wind blow right but concern the bewaring of be rob  which happen when the hinder sail in a before right wind steal the wind away  from the before sail for in a side wind all the sail be set a work I know not  what can be add to the care man have already take to prevent it unless where  there be a before wind there may be make a kind of stair or scale of sail that  the Hindermost sail of the Mizon mast may be the low the middle one at the  main mast a little high the before mast at the before mast high of all that  one sail may not hinder but rather help the other deliver and pass over the  wind from one to another and let so much be observe of the first fountain of  impulsion the second fountain of impulsion consist in the manner of strike the  sail with the wind which if through the contraction of the wind it be acute  and swift will move more if obtuse and languish less as concern this it be of  great moment and much to the purpose to let the sail have a reasonable  extension and swell for if they be stretch out stiff they will like a wall  Beatrice back the wind if they be too lose there will be a weak impulsion  touch this humane industry have behave it self well in some thing though it be  more by chance than out of any good judgement for in a side wind they gather  up that part of the sail as much as they can which be opposite against the  wind and by that mean they set in the wind into that part where it shall blow  and this they do and intend but in the mean season this follow which  peradventure they do not perceive that the wind be more contract and strike  more sharp what may be add to humane industry in this I can perceive unless  the figure of the sail be change and some sail be make which shall not swell  round but like a spur or a triangle with a mast or piece of timber in that  corner of the top that they may contract the wind more sharp and cut the  outward air more powerful and that angle as we suppose must not be altogether  sharp but like a short obtuse triangle that it may have some breadth neither  do we know what good it will do if there be as it be a sail make in a sail if  there be in the middle of a great sail there be a kind of a purse not  altogether lose of canvas but with rib of wood which shall take up the wind in  the middle of the sail and bring it into a sharpness the three fountain or  original of impulsion be in the place where the wind hit and that be twofold  for from the before side of the ship the impulsion be easy and strong than on  the hinder part and from the upper part of the mast and sail than from the low  part neither seem the industry of man to have be ignorant of this when in a  before wind their great hope have be in their before mast and in calm they  have not be careless in hoist up of their top sail neither for the present do  we find what may be add to humane industry in this point unless concern the  first we shall set up two or three before mast the first upright and the rest  slope who sail shall hang downward and as for the second that the before sail  shall be enlarge at the top and make less sharp than they usual be but in both  we must take heed of the inconvenience of danger in sink the ship too much the  motion of wind in other engine of man invention the motion of wind mill have  no subtlety at all in it and yet usual it be not well explain nor demonstrate  the sail be set right and direct opposite against the wind which blow one side  of the sail lie to the wind the other side by little and little bend it self  and get it self away from the wind but the turn and continuance of the motion  be always cause by the low part namely that which be far from the wind but the  wind over cast it self against the engine be contract and restrain by the four  sail and be constrain to take its way in four space the wind do not well  endure that compression wherefore of necessity it must as it be with its elbow  hit the side of the sail and so turn they even as little whirligig that child  play withal be turn with the finger if the sail be extend even and equal it  will be doubtful which way the inclination will be as in the fall of a staff  but when the near side which meet with the wind cast the violence of it upon  the low side and from thence into distance so that when the low side receive  the wind like the palm of the hand or the sail of a ship boat present there be  a turn on that side but this be to be observe that the beginning of the motion  proceed not from the first impulsion which be direct and a breast but from the  lateral impulsion which be after the compression or straighten of the wind we  make some proof and trial about this for the increase of this motion as well  to be assure we have find the cause as also for use feign a imitation of this  motion with paper sail and the wind of a pair of bellows we therefore add to  the side of the low sail a fold turn in from the wind that the wind be become  a side wind may have somewhat more to Beatrice upon which do no good that fold  not so much assist the percussion of the wind as in consequence hinder the cut  of the air we place behind the sail at some distance certain obstacle as broad  as the diameter of all the sail that the wind be more compress may hit the  strong but this do rather hurt than good the repercussion dull the primary  motion then we make the sail of a double breadth that the wind may be the more  restrain and there may be a strong lateral percussion which at last prove very  well so that the conversion be cause by a far mild gale and do turn a great  deal more swift mandate peradventure this increase of motion may more  convenient be make by eight sail than by four double the breadth unless too  much weight do over burden the motion which must have trial make of it mandate  likewise the length of sail do much conduce to the motion for in wheel a  slight violence about the circumference be equivalent to a far great about the  centre but then this inconvenience follow that the long the sail be the more  distant they be at the top and the wind be so much the less straighten  peradventure the business will go well if the sail be a little long and broad  towards the top like the outermost end of a Oar but this we be not sure of  monition if these experiment be make trial of in wind mill care must be take  of the wind mill post and the foundation of it for the more the wind be  restrain the more it shake though it swiftens the motion of the sail the whole  frame of the mill it be report that in some country there be coach and wagon  which move with the wind but this must be more diligent look after mandate  chariot move by virtue of the wind can be of no use unless it be in open place  and plain beside what will be do if the wind alley it have be better to have  think of ease the motion of wagon and coach by sail which may be set up and  take down to ease the ox or horse which draw they rather than to make a motion  by wind alone prognostic of wind to the two and thirty article connexion the  more divination use to be pollute by vanity and superstition so much more be  the pure part of it to be receive and honour but natural divination be  sometime more certain sometime more slippery and deceitful accord to the  subject with which it have to do for if it be of a constant and regular nature  it cause a certain prediction if it be of a variable and irregular nature it  may make a casual and deceitful one yet in a various subject the prediction  will hold true if it be diligent regulate peradventure it may not hint upon  the very moment but in the thing it self it will not err much likewise for the  time of the event and compliment some prediction will hit right enough namely  those which be not gather from the cause but from the thing it self already  inchoated but soon appear in a apt and fit dispose matter than in another as  we say before in the topic concern this two and thirty article we will now  therefore set forth the prognostic of wind of necessity intermix some of rain  and fair weather which can not convenient be separate remit the full enquiry  of they to their proper title if the sun appear hollow at its rise it will the  very same day yield wind or rain if it appear as it be a little hollow it  signify wind if deep hollow rain if the sun rise pale or as we call it  waterish it betoken rain if it set so it betoken wind if the body of the sun  it self appear at its set of the colour of blood it foretokens great wind for  many day if at sun rise its beam appear rather read than yellow it sign fie  wind rather than rain and the like if they appear so at its set if at sun rise  or set its ray appear contract or shorten and do not shine out bright though  the weather be not cloudy it signify rain rather than wind if before sun rise  there appear some ray as before runner it signify both wind and rain if the  sun at its rise diffuse its ray through the cloud the middle of the sun remain  still under cloud it shall signify rain especial if those beam break out  downward that the sun appear as it be with a beard but if the ray break forth  out of the middle or disperse and its exterior body or the outpart of it be  cover with cloud it before show great tempest both of wind and rain if the sun  when it rise be encompass with a circle let wind be expect from that side on  which the circle open but if the circle fall off all at one time it will be  fair weather if at the set of the sun there appear a white circle about it it  signify some small storm the same night if black or darkness much wind the day  follow if the cloud look read at sunrising they be prognostic of wind if at  sunsetting of a fair ensue day if about the rise of the sun cloud do gather  themselves about it they foreshow rough storm that day but if they be drive  back from the rise towards the set of the sun they signify fair weather if at  sunrising the cloud be disperse from the side of the sun some south ward and  some north ward though the sky be clear about the sun it before show wind if  the sun go down in a cloud it before show rain the next day but if it rain at  sunsetting it be a token of wind rather but if the cloud seem to be as it be  draw towards the sun it signify both wind and storm if cloud at the rise of  the sun seem not to encompass it but to lie over it as if they be about to  eclipse it they before show the rise of wind on that side as the cloud incline  and if they do this about noon they signify both wind and rain if the cloud  have encompass the sun the less light they leave it and the lesser the orb of  the sun appear so much the more rage shall the tempest be but if there appear  a double or Triple orb as though there be two or three sun the tempest will be  so much the more violent for many day new moon presage the disposition of the  air but especial the four rise of it as if it be a confirm new moon the full  moon likewise do presage more than the day which come after by long  observation the five day of the moon be fear by mariner for stormy if the new  moon do not appear before the four day it before show a trouble air for the  whole month if the new moon at her first appearance or within a few day after  have its low horn obscure or dusky or any way blemish it signify stormy and  tempestuous day before the full moon if it be ill colour in the middle tempest  will come about the full of the moon if it be so about the upper part of the  horn they will be about the decrease of the moon if at the four rise the moon  appear bright with sharp horn not lie flat nor stand upright but in a middle  kind of posture between both it promise fair weather for the most part until  the next new moon if at the same rise it be read it portend wind if dusky or  black rain but howsoever it signify nothing beyond the full moon a upright  moon be almost always threaten and hurtful but it chief portend wind but if it  have blunt horn and as it be cut off short it rather signify rain if one horn  of the moon be sharp and the other blunt it signify wind if both be blunt rain  if a circle or Halo appear about the moon it signify rain rather than wind  unless the moon stand direct within that circle for then it signify both  circle about the moon always foreshow wind on that side where they break also  a notable shine in some part of the circle signify wind from that part where  the shine be if the circle about the moon be double or Triple they before show  horrible and rough tempest and especial if those circle be not whole but spot  and divide full moon as concern the colour and circle do in a manner foreshow  the same thing as the four rise but more present and not so long delay full  moon use to be more clear than the other age of the moon and in winter use to  be far cold the moon appear large at the go down of the sun if it be splendent  and not dusky betoken fair weather for many day wind almost continual follow  the eclipse of the moon and fair weather the eclipse of the sun rain come  after neither from the conjunction of any of the planet but only the sun you  may expect wind both before and after from their conjunction with the sun fair  weather at the rise of the Pleiades and Hyades come shower of rain but calm  one after the rise of Arcturus and Oriyon tempest return and shoot star as we  call they signify wind to come from that place whence they run or be shoot but  if they fly from several or contrary part it be a sign of great approach storm  of wind and rain when such little star as those which be call  ass be not see  general all over the sky it foreshow great tempest and rain within some few  day but if they be see in some place and not in other some it foreshow wind  only and that sudden the sky when it be all over bright in a New-Moon or at  the four rise of it portend fair weather for many day if it be all over dark  it foreshow rain if partly dark and partly fair it portend wind of that side  where the darkness be see but if it grow dark on a sudden without either cloud  or mistress to dim the brightness of the star there be great and rough tempest  a breed if a entire circle enclose a planet or any of the great star it  foreshow wind if it be a break circle wind from those part where the circle be  deficient when the Thunder be more than the lightning there will be great wind  but if the lightning be thick amid the thunder it before show thick shower  with great drop morning thunder signify wind midday thunder rain bellow  thunder which do as it be pass along presage wind and those which make a sharp  and unequal noise presage storm both of wind and rain when it lighten in a  clear sky wind be at hand and rain from that part where it lighten but if it  lighten in diverse part there will follow cruel and horrid tempest if it  lighten in the cold quarter of the heaven namely the east and north hail will  follow if in the warm namely south and west we shall have rain and a warm sky  great heat after the summer Soistice and common with Thunder and lightning and  if those come not there will be wind and rain for many day the globe of flame  which the ancient call Castor which be see by mariner and seafaring man at sea  if there be but one presage a cruel tempest Castor be the dead brother and  much more if it stick not close to the mast but dance up and down but if they  be twin and Pollux the live brother be present and that when the tempest be  high it be a good presage but if there be three namely if Helen the plague of  all thing come in it will be a more cruel tempest so that one seem to show the  indigested matter of the storm two a digest and ripe matter three or more a  abundance that will hardly be disperse if we see the cloud drive very fast  when it be a clear sky we must look for wind from that way from which the  cloud be drive but if they wheel and tumble up together when the sun draw near  to that part in which they be tumble up together they will begin to scatter  and sever and if they part most towards the north it betoken wind if towards  the south rain if at sunsetting there arise black and dark cloud they presage  rain if against the sun namely in the east the same night if near the sun in  the west the next day with wind the clear of a cloudy sky if it begin against  the wind which then blow signify clear fair weather with the wind it betoken  nothing but the thing remain uncertain there be sometime see several as it be  chamber or join story of cloud one above the other so as gilbertus affirm he  have see five of they together and always the black be Lowermost though  sometime it appear otherwise because the white do more allure the sight a  double conjunction of story if it be thick show approach rain especial if the  low cloud seem as it be big with child more conjunction presage continuance of  rain if cloud spread abroad like fleece of wool here and there they foreshow  tempest but if they lie one a top of another like scale or tile they presage  drought and clear weather feather cloud like to the bough of a palm tree or  the flower of a rainbow be prognostic of present rain or immediate to follow  when hill and hillock look as though they wear cap by reason of the cloud lie  upon they and encompass they it presage imminent tempest amber or gold colour  cloud before sunsetting that have as it be gild helm or border after the sun  begin to be quite down foreshow fair clear weather grayish and as it be clay  colour cloud show that rain with wind be draw on some petty cloud show it self  sudden have not be see before and all the sky clear about it especial if it be  in the west and about noon show there be a storm a come cloud and miss ascend  and go upward presage rain and that this be do sudden so that they be as it be  suck up they presage rain but if they fall and reside in the valley they  presage fair weather a big cloud grow white which the ancient call a white  tempest in summer be a before runner of small hail like comfit in winter snow  a fair and clear autumn presage a windy winter a windy winter a rainy spring a  rainy spring a clear summer a clear summer a windy autumn so that the year as  the proverb go be seldom its own debtor and the same order of season will  scarce happen two year together fire upon the hearth when they look pale than  they be accustom and make a murmur noise within themselves do presage tempest  and if the flame rise bend and turn it signify wind chief and when the snuff  of lamp and candle grow like mushroom with broad head it be a sign of rainy  weather coal shine bright and sparkle over much signify wind when the  superficies of the sea be calm and smooth in the harbour and yet murmur within  it self though it do not swell signify wind the shore resound in a calm and  the sound of the sea it self with a clear noise and a certain echo hear plain  and further than ordinary presage wind if in a calm and smooth sea we espy  froth here and there or white circle or bubble of water they be prognostic of  wind and if these presage be very apparent they foreshow rough tempest if in a  rough sea there appear a shine froth which they call sealungs it foreshow a  last tempest for many day if the sea swell silent and rise high than ordinary  within the harbour or the tide come in soon than it use to do it foretell wind  sound from the hill and the murmur of wood grow loud and a noise in open  champion field portend wind also a prodigiius murmur of the element without  Thunder for the most part presage wind leave and straw play on the ground  without any breath of wind that can be feel and the down of plant fly about  feather swim and play upon the water signify that wind be near at hand water  fowl fly at one another and fly together in flock especial sea-mew and gull  fly from the sea and lake and hasten to the bank and shore especial if they  make a noise and play upon dry land they be prognostic of wind especial if  they do so in the morning but contrariwise sea fowl go to the water and  Beatrice with their wing chatter and bath themselves especial the crow be all  presage of storm ducker and duck cleanse their feather with their bill against  wind but goose with their importunate cry call for rain a Hern fly high so  that it sometime fly over a low cloud signify wind but kite when they fly high  foreshow fairweather crow as it be bark after a sob manner if they continue in  it do presage wind but if they catchingly swallow up their voice again or  croak a long time together it signify that we shall have some shower a chatter  owl be think by the ancient to foretell change of weather if it be fair rain  if cloudy fair weather but with we the owl make a clear and free noise for the  most part signify fair weather especial in winter bird perch in tree if they  fly to their nest and give over feed betimes it presage tempest but the hear  stand as it be sad and melancholy upon the sand or a crow walk up and down do  presage wind only dolphin play in a calm sea be think to presage wind from  that way they come and if they play and throw up water when the sea be rough  they presage fair weather and most kind of fish swim on the top of the water  and sometime leap do prognosticate wind upon the approach of wind swine will  be so terrify and disturb and use such strange action that country people say  that creature only can see the wind and perceive the horridness of it a little  before the wind spider work and spin careful as if they prudent forestall the  time know that in windy weather they can work before rain the sound of bell be  hear further off but before wind it be hear more unequal draw near and go  further off as it do when the wind blow real Pliny affirm for a certain that  three leave grass creep together and raise its leave against a storm he say  likewise that vessel which food be put into will leave a kind of sweat in  cupboard which presage cruel storm monition see rain and wind have almost a  common matter and see always before rain there be a certain condensation of  the air cause by the new air receive into the old as it appear by the sound of  the shore and the high flight of Hearns and other thing and see the wind  likewise thicken but afterward in rain the air be more draw together and in  wind contrariwise it be enlarge of necessity wind must have many prognostic  common with the rain whereof advice with the prognostic of rain under their  own title imitation of wind to the three and thirty article connexion if man  can be persuade not to fix their contemplation over much upon a propound  subject and reject other as it it be by the buy and that they will not  subtilise about that subject in infinitum and for the most part unprofitable  they will not be seize with such a stupor as they be but transfer their think  and discourse will find many thing at a distance which near at hand be hide so  that as in the civil law so we must likewise in the law of nature we must  careful proceed to semblable thing and such as have a conformity between they  bellows with man be Aeolus his bag out of which one may take as much as he  needs and likewise space between and open of hill and crook of building be but  as it be large bellows bellows be most useful either to kindle fire or for  musical organ the manner of the work of bellows be by suck in of the air to  shun vacuity as they say and to send it out by compression we also use hand  fan to make a wind and to cool only by drive forward of the air soft the cool  of summer room we speak of in answer to the nine article there may other more  curious mean be find especial if the air be draw in somewhere after the manner  of bellows and let out at another place but those which be now in use have  relation only to mere compression the breath in man Microcosmos and in other  animal do very well agree with the wind in the great world for they be  engender by humour and alter with moisture as wind and rain do and be disperse  and blow free by a great heat and from they that observation be to be transfer  to the wind namely that breathe be engender of matter that yield a tenacious  vapour not easy to be dissolve as bean pulse and fruit which be so likewise in  great wind in the distil of vitriol and other mineral which be most windy they  must have great and large receptacle otherwise they will break wind compose of  niter and gunpowder break out and swell the flame do not only imitate but also  exceed wind which blow abroad in the world unless they be such as be make by  thunder but the force of it be press in as in humane engine as gun i and  powder house set on fire but it have not yet be try whether in open air a  great heap of gunpowder set on fire will raise a wind for certain hour by the  commotion of the air there lie hide a flatuous and expansive spirit in quick  silver so that it do in some man opinion imitate gunpowder and a little of it  mix with gunpowder will make the powder strong likewise the chemist speak the  same of gold that be prepare some way it will break out dangerous like to  Thunder but these thing I never try a great observation the motion of wind be  for most thing see as it be in a lookingglass in the motion of water great  wind be inundation of the air as we see inundation of water both through the  augmentation of the quantity as water either descend from above or spring out  of the earth so some wind be cast down and some rise up as sometime in river  there be contrary motion one of the flow of the sea the other of the current  of the river yet both become one motion by the prevail of the flood so when  contrary wind blow the great subdue the lesser as in the current of the sea  and of some river it sometime fall out that the wave above go contrary to the  wave below so in the air when contrary wind blow together one fly over the  other as there be cataract of rain within a narrow space so there be whirlwind  as water however they go forward yet if they be trouble swell up into wave  sometime ascend grow up into heap sometime descend be as it be furrow so the  wind do the same but only want the motion of gravity there be also other  similitude which may be observe and gather out of those thing which have  already be inquire about movable rule concern wind connexion rule be either  particular or general both with we be movable for as yet we have not affirm  any thing positive particular rule may be take and gather almost out of every  article we will cull out some general one and those but a few and add  thereunto wind be no other thing but move air but the air it self move either  by a simple impulsion or by commixion of vapour wind by a simple impulsion be  cause four way either by the natural motion of the air or by expansion of the  air in the sun way or by reception of air through a sudden cold or by the  compression of the air by external body there may be also a five way by the  agitation and concussion of the air by star but let these thing be a while  silent or be give ear unto with a spare belief of wind which be make by  immixion of vapour the chief cause be the over burden of the air by air new  make out of vapour whereby the mass of the air grow big and seek new room a  small quantity of air add cause a great tumour of the air round about it so  that new air out of the resolution of vapour do confer more to motion than to  matter but the great body of wind consist in the former air neither do the new  air drive the old air before it as if they be several body but be both commix  they desire large room when any other beginning of motion concur beside the  over burden of the air it be a accessary which strengthen and increase that  principal which be the reason that great and violent wind do seldom rise by  the simple over burden of the air four thing be accessary to the over burden  of the air the breathe out of subterraneal place the cast down out of as it be  call the middle region of the air dissipation make out of a cloud and the  mobility and acrimony of the exhalation it self the motion of the wind be for  the most part lateral but that which be make by mere over burden be so from  the beginning that which be make by the expiration of the earth or  repercussion from above a little while after unless the eruption or  precipitation or reverberation be exceed violent air will endure some  compression before it be over burden and begin to thrust away the adjoin air  by reason whereof all wind be a little thick than quiet and calm air wind be  allay five way either by the conjunction of vapour or by their sublimation or  by transport they or by their be spend vapour be conjoin and so the air it  self become water four way either by abundance aggravate or by cold condense  or by contrary wind compel or by obstacle reverberate both vapour and  exhalation but wind very frequent from vapour but there be this difference  that wind which be make of vapour do more easy incorporate they self into pure  air be soon allay and be not so obstinate as those wind which be engender of  exhalation the manner and several condition of heat have no less power in the  generation of wind than the abundance or condition of the matter the heat of  the sun ought to be so proportion in the generation of wind that it may raise  they but not in such abundance as that they gather into rain nor in so small a  quantity that they may be quite shake off and disperse wind blow from their  nursery and the nursery be dispose several way diverse wind for the most part  blow together but the strong either quite overthrow or turn into its current  the weak wind be engender every where from the very superficies of the earth  up into the middle region of the air the more frequent below but the strong  above the country which have retain or trade wind if they be warm have they  warm that accord to the measure of their climate if they be cold they have  they cold a humane map or optatives with such thing as be next to they concern  wind optatives TO frame and dispose sail of ship in such a manner that with  less wind they may go a great journey a thing very useful to shorten journey  by sea and save charge next the next invention precise in practice I have not  as yet find yet concern that look upon our great observation upon the six and  twenty article optative that we can make wind mill and their sail in such  manner that they may grind more with less wind a thing very useful for gain  next look concern this upon our experiment in the answer to the seven and  twenty article where the thing seem to be as it be do optative to foreknow  when wind will rise and allay a thing useful for navigation and for Husbandy  especial for the choose of time for sea-fight next to this belong many of  those thing which be observe in the inquisition and especial in the answer to  the two and thirty article but a more careful observation hereafter if any  shall apply their mind to it will give far more exact prognostic the cause of  the wind be already lie open optative to give judgement and make prognostic by  wind of other thing as first whether they be continent or island in the sea in  any place or rather a free open sea a thing very useful for new and unknown  voyage next the next be the observation concern constant and trade wind that  which Columbus seem to make use of optative likewise of the plenty or scarcity  of corn every year a thing useful for gain and buy before hand and before  stall as it be report of Thales concern a monopoly of olive next to this  belong some thing specify in the inquisition of wind gither hurtful or shake  wind and the time when they do hurt to the nine and twenty article optative  likewise concern disease and plague every year a thing useful for the credit  of physician if they can foretell they also for the cause and cure of disease  and some other civil consideration next to this likewise belong some thing set  down in the inquisition to the thirty article monition of prediction by wind  concern corn fruit and disease look upon history of husbandry and physic  optative how to raise wind and to allay they next concern these thing there be  some superstitious opinion which do not seem worthy to be insert into a  serious and severe natural history nor can I think of any thing that be near  in this kind the design may be this to look through into and inquire about the  nature of the air whether any thing may be find whereof a small quantity put  into air may raise and multiply the motion to dilatation or contraction in the  body of the air for out of this if it may be do will follow the raisings and  allayings of wind such as that experiment of Pliny be concern vinegar throw  against the whirlwind if it be true another design may be by let forth of wind  out of subterraneal place if so be they shall gather together any where in  great abundance as it be a common and approve opinion of the well in Dalmatia  but to know such place of prison be very hard and difficult optative to work  many fine pleasant and wonder conceit by the motion of wind next we have not  leisure to enter into consideration touch these thing next to it be that  common report of the duel of wind questionless many such pleasant thing may  very well be find out both for motion and sound of wind a entrance to the  title appoint for the next five month the history of density and rarity the  entrance it be no marvel if nature be indebt to philosophy and the science see  it be never yet call upon to give a account for there never be any diligent  and dispensatory inquisition make of the quantity of the matter and how that  have be distribute into body in some copious in other spare accord to the true  or at least true account that have be true receive and approve of that nothing  be take away and lose or add unto the universal sum likewise that place have  be treat upon by some namely how it can be loosen or contract without  intermixion or vacuity accord to more or less but the nature of density and  rarity some have refer to the abundance or scarcity of the matter another have  laugh at the same the great part follow their author do discuss and compose  the whole matter by that cold and weak distinction of act and power those also  who attribute they to the reason of matter which be the true opinion do  neither quite deprive the means prima or primary matter of its quantum or  quantity though for other from they will have it equal but here do terminate  and end the matter and seek no further nor do not perceive what follow thereby  and either do not touch at all or at least do not urge home that which have a  regard to infinite and be as it be the basis and ground of natural philosophy  first therefore that which be right set down must not be move nor alter namely  that there be no transaction make in any transmutation of body either from  nothing or to nothing but that they be work of the same omnipotence to create  out of nothing and to reduce unto nothing and that by course of nature this  can never be do therefore the sum of the total matter stand still whole  nothing be add nothing be diminish yet that this sum be divide by portion  among the body be unquestionable for there can no man be so much beside  himself through any subtle abstraction as to think that there be as much  matter in one vessel of water as in ten vessel of water nor likewise in one  vessel of air as much as in ten vessel of air but in the same body there be no  question but that the abundance of matter be multiply accord to the measure of  the body in diverse body it be questionable and if it be demonstrate that one  vessel of water turn into air will yield ten vessel of air for we take this  computation for a receive opinion though that of a hundred fold be the true it  be well for now they be no more diverse body water and air but the same body  of air in ten vessel but one vessel of air as it be but now grant be but only  the ten part often vessel therefore it can be contradict but that in one  vessel of water there be ten time more matter than in one vessel of air  therefore if one shall affirm that one whole vessel of water can be convert  into one vessel of air it be as much as if one shall assirme that something  can be reduce to nothing for as much as one ten part of water will suffice to  do it and the other nine part must of necessity be reduce to nothing and  contrariwise if one shall affirm that one vessel of air can be turn into a  vessel of water it will be as much as if he shall say that something can be  create our of nothing for one vessel of air can attain and reach but unto the  ten part of a vessel of water and the other nine part must needs proceed from  nothing in the mean time we will plain acknowledge and confess that to  understand the true mean of the reason and calculation of the how much part of  the quantum or how much of the matter which be in diverse body and by what  industry and sagacity one may be true inform thereof be a high matter to be  inquire but such as the great and large extend profit which will accrue  thereby will large recompense for to know the density and rarity of the body  and much more how to procure and effect the condensation and rarefactions be  of great importance and moment both to contemplative and to the practic see  then it be a thing if any there be at all mere fundamental and universal we  must go careful and prepare about it see that all philosophy without it be  lose and disjoin the history of heavy and light the entrance the motion of  gravity and lightness the ancient do illustrate with the name of natural  motion for they see no external efficient nor no apparent resistance yea the  motion seem swift in its progress this contemplation or rather speech they  season with that mathematical fantasy of the stay or stop of heavy thing at  the centre of the earth although the earth shall be boar quite through and  that scholastical invention of the motion of body to their several place have  lie or set down these thing suppose they have do their part they look no  further but only that which some of they more careful inquire after namely of  the centre of gravity in diverse figure and of such thing as be carry by water  neither do any of the modern author do any thing worth speak of concern this  only by add some few mechanical thing which they have also wrest with their  demonstration but lie many word aside it be most certain that a body can  suffer but by a body neither can there be any local motion make unless it be  solicit or set forward either by the part of the body it self which be move or  by the adjacent body which either touch it or be near unto it or be at least  within the orb of its activity so that gilbertus do not unknowing introduce  Magnecick power he also become a loadstone namely draw more thing by those  power than he shall have do and building a ship as it be of a round piece of  wood the history of the sympathy and antipathy of thing the entrance strife  and amity in nature be the eggers on of motion and the key of work hence  proceed the union and dissension of body hence the mixion and separation of  body hence the high and intimate impression of virtue and that which they call  join of actives with passive final they be the great and wonder work of nature  but this part of philosophy namely of the sympathy and antipathy of thing be  most impure which also they call natural magic and which always likely come to  pass where diligence and care have want there have hope remain but the  operation thereof in man be mere like unto certain soporiferous medicine which  cast one asleep and do moreover send and infuse into he merry and pleasant  dream for first it cast man understanding into a sleep represent unto he  specifical property and hide virtue whereby man awake no more nor look after  the find and search out of true cause but acquiesce and lie still in these  idle way then it insinuate a innumerable company of fiction like unto dream  and vain man hope to know the nature by the outward shape and show and by  extrinsical similitude to discover inward property their practice also be very  like unto their enquiry for the precept of natural magic be such as if man  shall be confident that they can subdue the earth and eat their breed without  the sweat of their brow and to have power over thing by idle and easy  application of body and still they have in their mouth and like undertaker or  surety they call upon the loadstone and the consent which be between gold and  quicksilver and some few thing of this kind they allege for to prove other  thing which be not bind by any such like contract but God have appoint the  best of thing to be inquire out and be wrought by labour and endeavour we will  be a little more careful in search out the law of nature and the mutual  contract of thing neither favour miracle nor make too lowly and straighten a  inquisition the history of sulphur Mercury and salt the entrance this triple  of principle have be introduce by the chemist and as concern Speculatives be  of they which they bring the best invention the most subtle and acute of these  and those who be most philosophical will have the element to be earth water  air and the sky and those they will not have to be the matter of thing but the  matrix in which the specifical seed of thing do engender in the nature of a  matrix but for the means prima or primary matter which scholar do lie down as  it be naked and indifferent they substitute those three sulphur Mercury and  salt out of vuhith all body be gather together and mix we do accept of their  word but their opinion be not very sound yet that do not ill agree with their  opinion namely that we hold two of they to wit sulphur and Mercury take accord  to our sense to be very first and prime nature and most inward figurations of  matter and almost chief among the from of the first classis but we may vary  the word of sulphur and Mercury and name they otherwise oily waterish fat  Crude inflammable not inflammable or the like for these seem to be two very  great thing of the three and which possess and penetrate the universe for  among subterraneal thing they be sulphur and Mercury as they be call in the  vegetable and animal kind they be oil and water in the inferior spiritual  thing they be air and flame in the heavenly the body of a star and the pure  sky but of this last duality we yet say nothing though it seem to be a  probable decipher for if they mean by salt the fix part of the body which be  not resolve either into flame or smoke this belong to the inquisition of fluid  and determinate thing but if we take salt accord to the letter without any  parabolical meaning salt be no three thing from sulphur and Mercury but mix of  both connex into one by a acrimonious and sharp spirit for all manner of salt  have inflammable part and other part also which not only will not take fire  but do also abhor it and fly from it yet the inquisition of salt be somewhat  alley to the inquisition of the other two and exceed useful as be a tie and  band of both nature sulphurous and salt and the very rudiment of life it self  we have think fit to comprehend it also within this history and inquisition  but in the mean time we give you notice that those spiritual thing air water  star and sky we do as they very well deserve it reserve they for proper and  peculiar inquisition and here in this place to set down the history only of  tangible that be to say mineral or vegetable sulphur and Mercury