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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13348	A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation, compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus, a publice professor in Rome, Ferraria, & other uniuersities in Italie of the mathematicalles, named a treatise of continuall motions. Translated into Englishe, by Richard Eden. The contents of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng	Taisnier, Jean, 1508-ca. 1562.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.	1575 (1575)	STC 23659; ESTC S101247	53,484	76

whiche they shoulde carrie victualles and other prouisions agaynst the course of the ryuers And therefore in fauour of the common wealth I haue inuented these kynde of Shyppes that I may hereby as by my seale confyrme the good wyll I beare to our posteritie Nowe therefore it may suffice to haue sayde thus muche of this swyfte motion whiche I haue prooued with myne owne strength and haue sufficiently declared the framyng and vse thereof wherevnto it shal be easye for all men to adde more accordyng to the excellencie of their wyttes and experience For in all sciences it is easyer to adde to inuentions then to inuent Consyder nowe what commoditie this may bryng to the Brabantines saylyng from Antwerpe to Bruxels in the newe ryuer For that which they attempt dangerously with great vexation and shoggyng in waggons by foule and tedious iourney often wette to the skyn for the space of one whole day maye by water be doone more conueniently in the space of foure or fyue houres euen agaynst the ryuer and wynde And leste the reader shoulde seeme to refute our sayinges whyle he thynketh those thynges whiche he esteemeth for miracles to exceede the limittes of nature I wyll shewe manifestly by one Demonstration howe a man may descende into the bottome of anye water or ryuer his body remaynyng drye as here before I haue affirmed that I sawe in the famous Towne and kyngdome of Toleto before the Emperour Charles the fyfth and infinite other But here muste fyrste be consydered that naturally the water or sea as other Elementes intendeth to Sphericall forme and with his globosite or rysing ouerpasseth moste hygh mountaynes But agayne here shall ryse an other doubt to the vnexpert That is If the sea be hygher then the lande howe is it then that it dooth not drowne and couer the earth Whereunto I aunsweare that the dryenesse of the earth maye so long resyste the moystenesse of the water vntyll it receiue or imbibe to muche moystenesse whiche may thus be naturally prooued Fyll a cuppe or other vessell with water or wyne to the brymme so that the fulnesse thereof maye seeme to swell as though it woulde ouerflowe the brymme of the cuppe Then may you yet put therein many peeces of golde without sheddyng of one droppe of water But yf the extremitie of the brymme be once wette immediately the water ouerfloweth because the dryenesse of the vessell dooth participate the moystenesse of the water whiche is yet better prooued in maner as foloweth Take a certayne quantitie of water and sprynckle it by droppes vppon a drye or dustie cable so shall the droppes partly shewe a Sphericall and swellyng forme remaynyng But yf the table before be neuer so lyttle wette with water the droppes sprynckled thereon shall flote abrode and keepe no Spherical or rounde forme by reason of the moystnesse whiche the table had before receiued of the water It hath also oftentymes chaunced that certayne Townes and landes haue ben drowned by ouerflowyng of ryuers neare vnto them Neuerthelesse howe muche so euer suche waters increase and ryse there is no daunger vntyll great showres fallyng from heauen doo thorowly wette the banckes rampertes or calseys of suche riuers For when they as we haue sayde be thorowly imbibed with moystenesse they cause the ouerflowyng and breache whereof foloweth the ouerflowyng and drownyng of the region and this may suffise for aduertisement Nowe therefore I come to the experience aforesayde shewed at Toleto by two Greekes who takyng a chaulderon of great capasitie and the mouth turned downewarde and so hangyng it in the ayre by ropes they fasten certayne postes and boordes or shelues in the myddest of the chaldron where they place them selues with the fyre Thē to make it hang stedfastly and equally they compasse the circumference brymme or border thereof with leaden plommetes on euery syde equally and made of equal weyght least any part of the circumference of the mouth of the chaldron when it is equally and softly let downe into the water shoulde sooner touche the water then the whole circumference For so shoulde the water easyly ouercome the ayre inclosed in the chaldron and resolue it into moysture But yf by due proportion the chaldron thus prepared be fayre and softely let downe into the water the ayre inclosed in the chaldron by resistance of the water shall violently make hym selfe place not admittyng the water to enter So the men there inclosed shall so long remayne drye in the myddest of the water vntyll successe of tyme doo by respiration debilitate and consume the inclosed ayre turnyng it into grosse humiditie ingrossed by the coldnesse and moystnesse of the water but yf in due tyme the chaldron be softly and equally drawen out of the water the men shal remaine drye and the fyre not extinct whiche also may thus be prooued Take a cuppe of glasse of a certayne quantitie the circumference of the mouth wherof shal be broder then the circumference of the bottome In the mouth let be fastened a little sticke tying thereto a threede On the stycke fasten a little candle of waxe whose lyght may come onely to the myddest of the cuppe least to muche nearenesse of the water myght suffocate the candle Then proportionally as in the former experiment put the cup with the burnyng candle into a vessel ful of water in due tyme drawe it out softly and equally so that no part of the mouth of the circumference therof be drawen out before the whole or sydelye so shall the candle remayne alyue as it was before Then be naturall and Mathematicall Demonstrations Let not therefore the ignoraunt condemne our wrytynges before they knowe what maye be doone by experience It is nowe then no more a miracle when it is knowen to be naturall And thus is it in all other Sciences and experimentes whiche the common people thynke to be impossible As the lyke in growyng of certayne fruites trees and herbes by art so helpyng nature that they may spring and growe before their naturall tyme euen in the harte of Wynter It seemeth also a miracle to the common people that in the tyme of moste temperate season and great calmenesse on the sea Shyppes behelde faste immoueable in the myddest of the sea and sodaynely swalowed into the bowelles of the earth whiche neuerthelesse is doone naturally in maner of an earthquake and by lyke natural cause The reason whereof is that the ayre as a moste lyght Element inclosed in the bowelles of the earth striuyng euer naturally to the circumference of the earth as vnto his owne region But the pores of the earth beyng stronglye stopped and the ayre thereby agaynst his nature forcibly inclosed stryueth by violence to brust foorth and so cleauyng the earth in the bottome of the sea and great abundance of water fallyng into the breache euen from the hyghest parte of the sea in that place with swalowyng