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 324
THE HISTOR Y OF Life and Death. The Preface. … T is an ancient faying and complaint, That Life isfhort and Art long; wherefore it behoveth us, whomake it our chiefeft aim to perfect Arts, to take up-on us the confldcration or Prolonging Mans Life ,GOT), the ^Author of all Truth and Life, profper-ingour Endeavors. For though the Life of Man…
Natural history
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