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 329
To the prefent Age and Pofterity, Greeting. Lthough 1 had ranked the Hiftory ofLife and Death as the laft amongft mySix Monethly Defignations; yet Ihave thought fit, in refpeS of the prime ufethereof, [in which the leaf loft of time ouohtto he efleemed precious) to invert that order, and to fend…
Natural history
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