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A72146	Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.; De augmentis scientiarum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 1167.7; ESTC S124505	372,640	654

continued is a meere superstition and imposture Wherefore let us let goe these idle fancies unlesse the Muses be grown doting old wives IV. Abstract Physique in our judgement may very well be divided into two Parts into the Doctrine of the Schemes of Matter and into the doctrine of Appetites or Motions We will runne them both over briefly from whence the delineations of the true Physique of Abstracts may be drawen The Schemes of Matter are Dense Rare Grave Light Hot Cold Tangible Pneumatique Volatile Fixt Determinate Fluid Humid Drie Fat Crude Hard Soft Fragile Tensile Porous Vnited Spirituous Languid Simple Composite Absolute imperfectly Mixt Fibrous and full of veines of a simple Positure or equall Similare Dissimilare Specificate Non-specificate Organicall Jnorganicall Animate Jnanimate Neither doe we extend the figurations of Matter any farther for Sensible and Insensible Rationall and Irrationall we referre to the knowledge of Man § Appetites and Motions are of two sorts either motions simple which containe in them the Roots of all naturall Actions but yet according to the Schemes and habitudes of Matter or Motions composited and Producted from which last the received Philosophy of the Times which comprehends litle of the body of Nature takes its begining But such Compound Motions as Generation Corruption and the rest should be taken for the Summes and Products of simple Motions rather than for Primitive Motions Motions simple are motions of Antitypie commonly called Motion opposing Penetration of Dimensions Motion of Connexion or Continuity which they call Motion to avoid vacuity Motion of Liberty least there should be any compression or extension preternaturall Motion into a new spheare or to Rarefaction and Condensation Motion of a second connexion or a motion least there should be a solution of continuity Motion of greater Congregation or to the Masse of their connaturalls which is commonly called Naturall Motion Motion of lesser Congregation usually stiled Motion of Sympathy and of Antipathy Motion Disponent or that parts may be rightly placed in the whole Motion of Assimilation or of Multiplication of its Nature upon an other Motion of Excitation where the more noble and vigorous agent awaketh and stirres up Motion latent and dormant in an other Motion of the Seale or of Jmpression that is Operation without Communication of Substance Motion Regall or a Cohibition of other Motitions from a Motion Predominant Motion without Termination or Spontaneous Rotation Motion of Trepidation or of Contraction Dilatation of Bodies placed betwixt things good for them and obnoxious to them lastly Motion of Rest or abhorrency of Motion which is the Cause of many things Of this kind are simple Motions which truly issue forth out of the inward bowels of Nature which complicate continuate interchang'd repress'd repeated and many waies aggregated doe constitute those Composite Motions or Summes of Motions which are receiv'd and such other of the same kind The Summes of Motions are those Celebrated Motions Generation Corruption Augmentation Diminution Alteration and Lation so Mixtion Separation Version § There remaines only as Appendices of Physique the Measures of Motions of what efficacy the Quantity or Dose of Nature is What distance can doe which is called not unproperly the orbe of Virtue or Activity What incitation or Tardity can effect What a long or short delay what the force or rebatement of a thing What the instigation of Peristasie or circummambient inclosure And these are the naturall and genuine Parts of true naturall Philosophy touching Abstracts For in the figurations or Schemes of Matter in Motions simple In summes or Agregations of Motions and in Measure of Motions the Physique of Abstracts is accomplisht As for voluntary Motion in Animals Motion in the Actions of Senses Motion of the Imagination of the Appetite and of the will Motion of the mind of the discerning facultie or Practique Iudgment and of the Intellectuals we referre over to their proper Knowledges Yet thus much againe we advertise that all these Particulars we have delivered are no farther to be handled in Physique than the enquiry of their Matter and Efficient for according to their Formes and Ends they are revised and re-examined in Metaphysique V We will here annexe two notable Appendices which have reference not so much to the Matter as to the Manner of Inquiry Naturall Problemes and Placits of Ancient Philosophers The first is the Appendix of multiplied or sparsed Nature the second of Nature united or of summes Both these belong to a grave and circumspect moving of doubts which is no meane Part of Knowledge For Problemes comprehend Particular Dubitations Placits generall about Principles and the Fabrique Of Problemes there is an excellent example in the writing of Aristotle which kind of worke certainly deserv'd not only to have bin celebrated by Posterity Aristot Probl. but by their labours to have bin continued seeing new doubts arise daily But in this point Caution is to be taken and that of great Importance The recording and proposing of Doubts hath in it a two-fold use One that it munites and fortifies Philosophy against errors when that which is not altogether so cleere and evident is not defin'd and avouched lest error should beget error but a judgment upon it is suspended and is not definitive The other that the entrie of Doubts and recording of them are so many Sponges which continually suck and draw in unto them an increase and improvement of Knowledge whereby it comes to passe that those things which without the suggestion of Doubts had bin slightly and without observation passed over are by occasion of such Dubitations more seriously and attentively considered But these two utilities scarce recompence one discommodity which unlesse it be carefully lookt unto insinuateth it selfe namely That a Doubt once acknowledged as justly made and become as it were authentique presently stirres up defendants both waies who in like manner commend over the same liberty of doubting to Posteritie so that men bend and apply their wits rather to keepe a doubt still on foot than to determine and solve it Jnstances of this case we have every where both in Iurisconsults and in Students in the Universities who if they have once entertain'd a Doubt it goes ever after authoriz'd for a Doubt assuming unto themselves a Priviledge as well of Dubitation as of Assertion Whereas the right use of Reason is to make things doubtfull certaine and not to call things certaine into doubt Wherefore J report as Deficient a Calendar of Dubitations or Problemes in Nature and approve the undertaking of such a worke as a profitable paines so care be had that as knowledge daily grows up which certainly will come to passe if men hearken unto us such Doubts as be cleerly discust and brought to resolution be raced out of the Catalogue of Problemes To this Calendar I would have another annext no lesse usefull For seeing that in all Enquiries there be found these three sorts of things things manifestly true Doubtfull manifestly false

by them yet for all this I should hold them unlawfull because they impugne and contradict that divine Edict pass'd upon man for sinne In sudore vultus comedes panem tuum Gen 3. For this kind of Magique propounds those noble fruits which God hath set forth to be bought at the price of Labour to be purchas'd by a few easy and sloathfull observances III There remaine two knowledges which referre specially to the Faculties of the inferiour or sensible Soule as those which doe most Communicate with corporall Organs the one is of Voluntary Motion the other of sense and sensibility ✿ DE NIXIBVS SPIRITûS IN MOTV VOLVNTARIO § In the former of these the Inquiry hath bin very superficiall and one entire part almost quite left out For concerning the office and apt fabrique of the Nerves and Muscles and of other parts requisite to this Motion and which part of the Body rests whilest another is moved and that the Governour and Chariot-driver as it were of this Motion is the Imagination so as dismissing the Image to which the Motion was caried the Motion it selfe is presently intercepted and arrested as when we walke if an other serious and fixed thought come into our mind we presently stand still and many other such subtleties not to be slighted have now long agoe come into Observation and Enquiry And how Compressions and Dilatations and Agitations of the Spirit which without question is the spring of Motion should incline excite and enforce the corporall and ponderous Masse of the Parts hath not yet bin enquired into and handled with diligence and no marvaile seeing the sensible soule it selfe hath bin hitherto taken for an entelechie or selfe moving Facultie and some Function rather than a Substance But now it is knowne to be a corporall and materiate Substance it is necessary to be enquired by what efforts such a pusill and a thin-soft aire should put in motion such solid and hard bodies Therefore seeing this part is DEFICIENT let enquiry be made thereof § But of sense and sensibility there hath bin made a farre more plentifull and diligent enquiry both in Generall Treatises about them and in Particular Sciences as in Perspective and Musique how truly is not to our purpose to deliver Wherefore we cannot set them downe as DEFICIENTS Notwithstanding there are two noble and remarkable Parts which in this knowledge we assigne to be DEFICIENT the one concerning the difference of Perception and Sense the other concerning the Forme of Light ✿ DE DIFFERENTIA PERCEPTIONIS ET SENSVS § As for the Difference between Perception and Sense Philosophers should in their writings de sensu sensibili have premis'd a solid and sound discovery thereof as a matter Fundamentall For we see that there is a manifest power of Perception even in all Bodies Naturall and a kind of Election to embrace that which is any way allied in nature and favourable to them and to fly what is adverse and forraine Neither doe we meane of more subtile Perceptions only as when the Loadstone drawes unto it Iron Flame leapes to Bituminous Mould one Buble of water neere another Buble closeth and incorporates with it Rayes glance from a white object the body of a living Creature assimilates that which is good for it excerneth what is unprofitable a peece of sponge even when it is rais'd above the surface of the water sucks in water expells ayre and the like For to what end should we enumerate such instances seeing no body plac'd neere to an other changeth the other or is changed of it unlesse a reciprocall Perception precede the operation Every Body hath a Perception of the Pores Passages by which it insinuates it selfe it feeles the invasion of another Body to which it yeeldeth it perceives the remove of another Body by which it was detained when it recovers it selfe it perceives the divulsion of its continuance which for a time resisteth and in a word Perception is diffused through the whole body of Nature Aire doth so exactly Sense Hot and Cold that the Perception thereof is farre more subtile than mans Touch which yet is taken for the discerning Rule of Hot and Cold. Two faults therefore are found concerning this knowledge that men have for most part past it over toucht unhandled which notwithstanding is a most unble speculation The other is that they who perchance have addicted their minds to this contemplation Campanella alij have in the heat of this Pursuit gone too farre and attributed Sense to all Bodies that it is a most a piaculare crime to pull off a bow from a Tree Virg. Aen. 3 lest it should groane and complaine as Polydore did But they should explore with diligence the difference of Perception and Sense not only in comparing of Sensibles with Insensibles according to the entire body as of Plants and living Creatures but also to observe in the sensible Body what should be the cause that so many Actions should be discharg'd and that without any Sense at all Why Aliments are digested egested Humors and succulent moystures caried upwards and downwards the Heart and Pulse beate the Guts as so many Shops or Worke-houses should every one accomplish his proper worke and yet all these and many such like are performed without Sense But men have not with sufficient enquiry searcht or found out of what Nature the Action of Sense is and what kind of Body what delay what Conduplication of impression are required to this that pain or pleasure should follow To close this point they doe seem to be altogether ignorant of the difference betwixt simple Perception and sense how farre Perception may be made without sense Nor is this Enquiry a Controversie of words but a matter of great and important moment Wherefore let there be made a better inquiry of this knowledge as of a matter very profitable and of manifold use Considering also that the ignorance of some of the Ancient Philosophers touching this matter so farre obscured the light of reason as that they thought there was without any difference a Soule infused into all Bodies nor did they conceive how Motion with a discerning instinct could be made without Sense or Sense exist without a Soule ✿ RADIX PERSPECTIVAE SIVE DE FORMA LVCIS § As for the Form of Light that there hath not bin made a due enquiry thereof specially seeing men have so painfully imploy'd their Studies in the Perspectives may well be censur'd as a strange oversight For neither in the Perspectives nor elswhere is there any thing inquired concerning Light of any worth or waight The Radiations of it are handled the Originalls not But the placing of Perspectives amongst the Mathematiques hath begotten this defect and others of like nature because men have made a too early departure from Physiques So on the other side the handling of Light and the Causes thereof in Physiques is commonly superstitious as of a