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, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London · leaf 264
ired. As forihc Heathen opinion, which wa?, That upon great mutations of the World,perfeO Creatures were firft ingendrcd of Concretion, as well as Frogs, andW^orm?, and Flies, and fuch like, are now; we know it to be vain: But ifanyfuch thing fliould be admitted, difcourfing according to fcnfe, it… … ■^--—^^-■---A11He Philofophy ofP/r(.f?or.« (which was fullof SupCf-iVition) did firi plane a Monftrous Imagination, wnichatccrwards was, by the i)chool of Tuto, and others,vr.itrcd and nouriflicd. It was, That theff^or/d ttrxs oneifTXlt] -^vLm fiitiTf perfect Livhi^^ Creature i inibmucb, ^s…
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