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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28968	Experimenta & observationes physicæ wherein are briefly treated of several subjects relating to natural philosophy in an experimental way : to which is added, a small collection of strange reports / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing B3959; ESTC R19615	59,707	217

quiet place the scatter'd Particles by degrees so convene as to compose a Model of the Plant they once belong'd to And Heat not being requisite to their formation these Plants do not quickly as the Pelonian Physician 's Phantastick Vegetable Recorded by Quercetan fall back into a Powder but if let alone continu'd a great while until the Preparer think fit by a gentle Agitation of the Bottle to dissolve the loose Contexture of it RELATION II. I met the other day with a very intelligent Person well vers'd in Chymistry not credulous and in a word very well worthy of Credit who assur'd me that he had himself seen a few years ago at Mentz in the Hands of one Monsieur P r a Gentleman of Switzer-land and a Virtuoso a piece of Glass about the bigness of a Shilling or somewhat bigger which was Red and pretty transparent like Glass of Antimony made per se and which this Monsieur P. affirm'd to the Relator that he Hammer'd before the present Elector of Heidelberg to whom I told him I had the Honour to be known and by whom the Relator was about that time imploy'd And this Monsieur P. being his intimate Acquaintance and perceiving that he was as he well might be indispos'd to believe so strange a thing after he had confest the Glass to have been given him by an excellent Chymist in his Country Switzerland this Gentleman I say at the Relators earnest Request gave him leave for his satisfaction to lay the piece of Glass upon an Anvil and to strike seven or eight strokes with a Hammer upon it by which means he found that tho it was nor malleable at least in the state it then was like neal'd Silver since it began to crack at the edges like Silver that is over-hammer'd yet it did really stretch under the Hammer growing more thin on the beaten part and having visible Marks or Impressions made on it by the edg of the Hammer RELATION III. A Pious and Learned School-Master that ventur'd to stay in London in the great Plague 1665 and was much Employ'd as some Friends of mine that knew him and commended him assur'd me to Visit the Sick and distribute Alms and Relief to them went indiscriminately to all sorts of Infected and even Dying Persons to the number as he told me of nine Hundred or a Thousand and being ask'd by me about the Infection of other things than Walls he told me That being once call'd to Administer some Ghostly comfort to a poor Woman that had Buried some Children of the Plague he found the Room so little that it scarce held any more than the Bed whereon she lay Sick and an open Coffin wherein he saw her Husband lye Dead of the same Disease whom the Wife soon after follow'd In this little close Room they affirm'd to him that the Contagious Steams had produc'd Spots on the very Wall and when I ask'd whether he himself had seen them he answer'd That he had not but yet was inclin'd to believe the thing to be true not only upon the score of the Relators but because he had observ'd the like in his own Study which being divided only by a Wall from some Rooms of a House which the Owner had turn'd into a kind of a Pest-house and in which Numbers had Dyed in a short time he took notice that the white Wall of his Study was since the Sickness rag'd without any other cause that he could imagine Blemish'd in divers places with Spots like those of Infected Persons when to add that upon the by I inquir'd what Antidote he us'd he replied That next the Protection of God which so many sad Objects made him the more fervently Implore and a constant fearlesness the only Preservative he us'd besides good Diet were half a Spoonful or a Spoonful of Brandy five or Six times a day especially when he went into Infected places and the bigness of a small Nut or less of a Root of Spanish Angelica of which he held in his Mouth the quantity of a Pepper-corn or somewhat less as often as he thought there was need RELATION IV. An ingenious Person and very worthy of Credit inform'd me the other day in answer to some questions that I propos'd to him That he was Imploy'd some years ago by a German Physician whose Name he told me to Distil a certain Mineral not unknown to me which he perform'd in a naked Fire with so good success that he had from about half a Pound of the Mineral near Ê’III of the Liquor this he included in a Glass with a Bubble and a slender neck like one of my Weather-Glasses but tho the Liquor at first reach'd not above the Bubble but only fill'd it to the bottom of the Pipe yet as the Moon increas'd this Liquor as the Doctor expected by degrees expanded it self in the Glass so that about the Full Moon it reach'd about an Inch into the Pipe and upon the Decrease of the Moon it subsided by degrees to the bottom of the Pipe And when I ask'd whether the Vessel were carefully stopt he answer'd That it was not only so but Hermetically Seal'd like one of my Thermometers with Spirit of Wine which he had seen This the Relator averr'd to me upon his own Observation and being desir'd he readily gave me a description of the Mineral and a direction where to procure it which I am now endeavouring to do adding that the same Doctor made the like Tryal with another Mineral akin to this with which my having heard that such an Experiment had been done gave me occasion to propose him the question RELATION V. An inquisitive Traveller that not long since waited on a German Prince addicted to Chymistry and was imploy'd by him in his private Laboratory being ask'd by me some questions about Ore of Bismute or Tin-glass whereof there is said to be a Mine in that Prince's Territories and in particular whether he had observ'd any thing of the varying bulk of a strange Liquor obtainable from it He answer'd me to this effect That he had had occasion to make many Tryals upon this Mineral and that particularly by his Prince's command he had Distill'd a considerable quantity of a certain sort of it because it yields but very little Spirit and that he thereby obtain'd a Liquor which being by Rectification freed from its superfluous Phlegm amounted to about half a Pint. This Liquor was put into a Vial which it almost half fill'd This Vial being exactly stop'd was set aside in a quiet place where as the Prince expected as the Light of the Moon increas'd from the New Moon towards the Full so this Liquor gradually swell'd and that not in a hardly perceptible degree but very manifestly and confiderably so that when the Moon was Full the Liquor reached almost to the top of the Glass and during her Wane as the Light decreas'd so did the bulk of the Liquor which was always least at the New Moon I