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 321
f.% A ^ To To the prefent Age and Pofterit>^, Greeting. … Lthough I had ranked the Hi (lory ofLife and Deaih as the lajlamongjl mySixMonethlyDefignations; yet Ihaye thought fit, in refficB oj the [rime ufe ^ thereof, [in which the leajl lo/^ of time ouoht to he ejleemed preciom) to invert that order^ and to fetid itforth in the[econd place. For I have…
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