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line crystallizations, without the co iilid eration and prelcience of the na-
ture and reason of a Globular form, and as dissicult to explicate this con-
figuration of Mulhroms, without the previous cohlideration of the form
of Salts; lb will the enquiry into the forms of Vegetables be no less, if
not much more difficult, without the sore-knotvledge os the forms of
Mulhroms, these several Enquiries having no less dependance one up-
on another then any selefl: number of Propositions in Mathematical Ele-
ments may be made to have.
Nor do I imagine that the Ikipsfrom the one to another will be found
very great, if beginning from ssuidity, or body without any form, we
deseend gradually,till we arrive at the highest sorm of a bruite Animal’s
Soul, making the steps or foundations of our Enquiry, Fluidity, Gr bi eo-
lation Fixation, AngulizAtion, or Cryflalligation Germination or Ebulli-
tion, Vegetation,.Plant animation, Animation, Senfation, Imagination.
Now, that we may the better proceed in our Enquiry, It will be re-
quisite to consider:
First, that Mould and Mulhroms require no seminal property, but the
former may be produc’d at any time from any kind of petrifying Animal,
or Vegetable Substance,as Flesh.cf c. kept moist and warm,and the latter,
if what Alathiolus relates be true, of making them by Art, are as much
within our command, of which Matter take the Epitomie which Mr.
Parkinjbn has deliver’d in his Herbal, in his Chapter of Asifbroms, becaule
I have not Mathiolw now by me : Unto these Mufhroms (saith he) may
alfo be adjoynd thofe which are made os Art (wherMathiolus makes men-
tion) that grow naturally among certain fiones in Naples, and that the
st ones be&g digged up, and carried to Rome, and other placer, where they
Jet them in their Wine Cellars, covering them with a little Earth,and sprin/s
ling a little warm water thereon, would within sour days produce Asishroms
fit to be eaten, at what time one will: As alsb that Mujhroms may be made
to grow at the soot os a wilde Poplar Tree, Within sour days after, warm
water wherein seme leaves have been dijfolvdshall be pour’d into the Root
(which muss be slit) and the ssock, above ground.
Next, that as Mulhroms may be generated without seed, so does it
not appear that they have any such thing as seed in any part of them; for
having considered several kinds of them, I could never find any thing id
them that I could with any probability ghels to be the seed of it, lb that
it does not as yet appear (that I know of) that Mulhroms may be ge-
nerated from a seed, but they rather leem to depend merely upon a com
venient constitution of the matter out of tvhich they are made, and d
concurrence of either natural or artificial heat.
Thirdly,that by several bodies (as Salts and Metals both in Water and
in the air, and by several kinds of lublimations in the Air) actuated and
guided with a congruous heat, thete may be produc’d several kinds os
bodies as curioully, if not of a more compos’d Figure; several kinds os
riling or Ebulliating Figures seem to manifest; as witness the Ihodting
in the Rectification of Ipitits of Urine, Hart-horn, Blond, 8cc. witnels allb
the curious branches of evaporated dissblutionsj ibme os them against
the
line crystallizations, without the co iilid eration and prelcience of the na-
ture and reason of a Globular form, and as dissicult to explicate this con-
figuration of Mulhroms, without the previous cohlideration of the form
of Salts; lb will the enquiry into the forms of Vegetables be no less, if
not much more difficult, without the sore-knotvledge os the forms of
Mulhroms, these several Enquiries having no less dependance one up-
on another then any selefl: number of Propositions in Mathematical Ele-
ments may be made to have.
Nor do I imagine that the Ikipsfrom the one to another will be found
very great, if beginning from ssuidity, or body without any form, we
deseend gradually,till we arrive at the highest sorm of a bruite Animal’s
Soul, making the steps or foundations of our Enquiry, Fluidity, Gr bi eo-
lation Fixation, AngulizAtion, or Cryflalligation Germination or Ebulli-
tion, Vegetation,.Plant animation, Animation, Senfation, Imagination.
Now, that we may the better proceed in our Enquiry, It will be re-
quisite to consider:
First, that Mould and Mulhroms require no seminal property, but the
former may be produc’d at any time from any kind of petrifying Animal,
or Vegetable Substance,as Flesh.cf c. kept moist and warm,and the latter,
if what Alathiolus relates be true, of making them by Art, are as much
within our command, of which Matter take the Epitomie which Mr.
Parkinjbn has deliver’d in his Herbal, in his Chapter of Asifbroms, becaule
I have not Mathiolw now by me : Unto these Mufhroms (saith he) may
alfo be adjoynd thofe which are made os Art (wherMathiolus makes men-
tion) that grow naturally among certain fiones in Naples, and that the
st ones be&g digged up, and carried to Rome, and other placer, where they
Jet them in their Wine Cellars, covering them with a little Earth,and sprin/s
ling a little warm water thereon, would within sour days produce Asishroms
fit to be eaten, at what time one will: As alsb that Mujhroms may be made
to grow at the soot os a wilde Poplar Tree, Within sour days after, warm
water wherein seme leaves have been dijfolvdshall be pour’d into the Root
(which muss be slit) and the ssock, above ground.
Next, that as Mulhroms may be generated without seed, so does it
not appear that they have any such thing as seed in any part of them; for
having considered several kinds of them, I could never find any thing id
them that I could with any probability ghels to be the seed of it, lb that
it does not as yet appear (that I know of) that Mulhroms may be ge-
nerated from a seed, but they rather leem to depend merely upon a com
venient constitution of the matter out of tvhich they are made, and d
concurrence of either natural or artificial heat.
Thirdly,that by several bodies (as Salts and Metals both in Water and
in the air, and by several kinds of lublimations in the Air) actuated and
guided with a congruous heat, thete may be produc’d several kinds os
bodies as curioully, if not of a more compos’d Figure; several kinds os
riling or Ebulliating Figures seem to manifest; as witness the Ihodting
in the Rectification of Ipitits of Urine, Hart-horn, Blond, 8cc. witnels allb
the curious branches of evaporated dissblutionsj ibme os them against
the