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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28798	Frier Bacon his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magick faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own copy by T.M. and never before in English.; De mirabili potestate artis et naturae. English	Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; T. M.	1659 (1659)	Wing B373; ESTC R10803	22,920	72

their Pitchers and shining of their Lamps together with the sudden leaping forth of the fire and inestimable cracklings These would appear strange if they were designed to their just height both of proportion and matter I might produce many strange works of another kind which though they bring no sensible profit yet contain an ineffible spectacle of wit and may be applied to the probation of all such secrets as the ignorant crew will not imbrace Such might I name the attraction of Iron to the Loadstone a thing so incredulous as none save an eye-witnesse would believe And in this attraction of Iron experience will show a diligent searcher more wonders than any vulgar capacity can entertain But to proceed to greater and more than these There is an attraction of gold silver and all other metals by a certain stone much after the same manner Besides one stone will runne to the heap Plants may have their mutual concurrence and the parts of sensible creatures locally divided will naturally move to a mutual imbracement The consideration whereof makes me think that there is not any thing whether in divine or outward matters too difficult for my faith To proceed higher The whole power of the Mathematicks may compose a spherical Engine according to P●olomies frame in eight Almagest which sincerely describes both longitude and latitude of all Celestial Bodies but to give them a natural diurnal motion is not in the power of the Mathematicks However a discreet head-piece would do well to try the making hereof of such materials and artifice as it might have a natural diurnal motion Which seems to me possible and because many things are moved with the motion of the Heavens as Comets the Sea tides with several other things which are turned about either in the whole or in part Such a work might be thought more miraculous and of a vaster benefit than any thing hitherto mentioned For the perfecting of this would frustrate all other whether the more curious or the more vulgar Astronomical Instruments which surely would be more valuable than a Kings Coffers and yet there may matters be brought to passe which though they will not reach so near a miracle yet of farre greater publick and private profit As the producing so much gold or silver as we please not by the work of Nature yet accomplishment of Art seeing there may be ten and seven wayes of gold ●●ght by the mixture of silver with gold and the first way is made by sixteen parts of gold with some parts of silver which will attain the four and twentieth degree of gold alwayes augmenting one degree of gold with one of silver and so for the mixture of brasse with gold So the last way is * by the four and twenty degrees of pure gold without mixture of other metal And beyond this Nature knows no further progresse as experience tels us Though Art may augment gold in the degrees of purity even to infinitenesse and compleat silver without the least cheat And yet that which seems more rare than all this is That though the rational soul hath so farre its free-will as it cannot be compelled yet may effectually be excited induced and disposed freely to alter its affections desires and behaviours to the dictates of another man And this may not only be practised upon one particular person but upon a whole Army City or Body of a Nation living under one Region if we believe experience And this experience Aristotle discloseth in his Book of Secrets both of an Army Region and single person And thus I have well nigh finished my thoughts of Nature and Art CHAP. VII Of Retarding the Accidents of Old age and Prolongation of Life THe furthest attainment which the complement of Art joyned with the whole Energy of Nature can reach unto is the Prolongation of Life to a very old date How farre this is attainable manifold experience hath shewed us Pliny reports That Pollio a man of a strong body and mind lived much longer then men usually now of whom Octavius Augustus enquiring What course he took to live so long was answered aenigmatically he used Oyl without and Mulsum within now according to the opinion of some it 's eight parts of water and nine of honey I might produce many examples of the same quality as that which fell out in the dayes of King William A Countrey-man plowing in the field found a golden vessel containing a certain liquor which he supposing to be the Dew of Heaven washed his face withall and drunk of it whereby he became renued in spirit body and excellency De bubulio factus est Bajulus Regis Siciliae from a Plow-man he was made Porter to the King of Sicily And the Popes Letters assures us That Almannus held Prisoner by the Sar●cens through the use of a Medicine lived five hundred years For the King whose Captive he was having received this Medicine from the Embassadours of the great King and being suspitious of them made tryal hereof upon this Captive which was brought him for that purpose And the Lady of the Woods in great Britanny searching for a white Hinde found an Ointment wherewith the Keeper of the Woods anointed his whole body except the soals of his feet and he lived three hundred years without any corruption save in the soals of his feet which had some passions We our selves know it frequent in these dayes That plain Countrey men without the advantage so much as of a Physicians advice live very healthfully an hundred years or little lesse And these are the rather confirmed by the operations of Animals as Harts Eagles Serpents and many others who by the efficacy of heart or stones have renewed their youth And wise men seeing that even bruits could reach so farre to their Prolongation adjudging it no lesse feasable by reasonable men set themselves on the Spurre to find out this secret Hereupon Artefius from his own ingenuity having found the Secrets of Stones Herbs Sensibles c. both for the knowledge of Nature and especially the Prolongation of Life did * rejoyce that he had lived 1025. yeares Further to confirme this Assertion of the Prolongation of Life it 's considerable That man naturally is immortal that is to say Potens non mori hath a possibility of not dying Yea even after his fall he might live a thousand years though by degrees the length of life was abbreviated Hence it follows That this abbreviation is Accidental and consequentially may be repaired in whole or in part and upon search we shall find the accidental cause of this corruption is not from the Heavens or any other than the defect of true Government of our health In that our Fathers are corrupt and imbecil they beget sonnes of a corrupt complexion and composition and their children upon the same score are corrupted Thus the Pedig●ee of corruption is deprived from Fathers to sonnes untill we settle upon our heirs