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Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life (1658)

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Rawley, William, 1588?-1667 · London : Printed by A.M. for William Lee · leaf 52

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orMu-I table. We fee how Flies and Spiders, and the like, get a Sepulcber in Am-j ber, more Durable, than the Monument and Embalming of the Body o f ny! King. And I conceive the like will be of Bodies put into guick~filver. Butthen they mult be but thin ■ As a leaf, or a peece of Paper, or… … ATURALL HISTORY. II. Century,

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