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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THE HISTORIA VENTORUM. BY ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS. The Historia Ventorum was published in 1622 in a volume entitled " Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis ad condendam Philosopliiam ; sive Ph�nom...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THE HISTORIA VENTORUM. BY ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS. The Historia Ventorum was published in 1622 in a volume entitled " Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis ad condendam Philosopliiam ; sive Ph�nomena Universi." This volume was dedicated to Prince Charles, and contains beside the Historia Ventorum the titles of five similar histories, one or more of which Bacon proposed to publish month bv month ; namely, the Historias Denn et Rari; Gravi et Levin ; Sym- pathice et Antipathice Rerum ; Sulphuris, Mercurii, et Salis ; et Vitce et Morti. Under the title of each, except the last, is placed an aditus or preface - that of the Hixtoria Vitce et Morti is omitted because, as we are told at the end of the volume,1 the history itselfwith its preface was shortly, "jam proxime," to be published. It did not however appear until 1623. 1 " Aditus ad hanc historiam invenitur in historia ipsa, jam proxime se- quente." But this comes from Dr. Rawley's reprint, published along with the Opera Morniia et Cii-'dia in 1B38, from which Mr. Montagu's copy i.- taken; and "jam proxime sequente " merely means ' which is the next piece in this volume." The original edition, published by Bacon himself in 8vo in 1822. h:is the aditus to the Historia Vit� et Mortis as well as the teat. The Historia Ventorum appears to have been published about the beginning of November, 1622: the Histnrifi Vike ct Mortis about the end of the following Januar)-. See Chamberlain's letter to Sir D. Carleton, 11. Feb. Vol. Hi. 13 The Historia Ventorum is thus the first published part of the Hutoria Naturalis, which was to be the third division of the Imtaaratio. It begins with a list of topies, or subjects to be inquired into. Of these thirty-three are enumerated, and something is said in the course of the w...
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