Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life (1670)
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Rawley, William, 1588?-1667 · London : Printed by J.R. for William Lee · leaf 113
theirNature never fo perifhablc or mutable. We fee howFlies and spiders, and the like, get a Sepulchre in t^Amber, more durable thanthe UMonument and Embalming of the Bodj of any King. And I conceive thelikewillbeof Bodies put into Quick^-filver. Butthenthey mull be butthin, asa leaf of a pcccc of… … NATURAL *f
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