| CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
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| SYLVA SILVARUM; OR A NATURAL HISTORY. | |||
| Century I. | |||
| Of straining or percolation, outward and inward | 7 | ||
| Of motion upon pressure | 8 | ||
| Of separations of bodies liquid by weight | 8 | ||
| Of infusions in water and air | 9 | ||
| Of the appetite of continuation in liquids | 10 | ||
| Of artificial springs | 10 | ||
| Of the venomous quality of man's flesh | 10 | ||
| Of turning air into water | 10 | ||
| Of helping or altering the shape of the body | 11 | ||
| Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nourishment | 11 | ||
| Of flame and air commixed | 11 | ||
| Of the secret nature of flame | 12 | ||
| Of flame, in the midst, and on the sides | 12 | ||
| Of motion of gravity | 12 | ||
| Of contraction of bodies in bulk | 13 | ||
| Of making vines more fruitful | 13 | ||
| Of the several operations of purging medicines | 13 | ||
| Of meats and drinks most nourishing | 14 | ||
| Of medicines applied in order | 17 | ||
| Of cure by custom | 17 | ||
| Of cure by excess | 17 | ||
| Of cure by motion of consent | 17 | ||
| Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition | 17 | ||
| Of preparation before and after purging | 18 | ||
| Of stanching blood | 18 | ||
| Of change of aliments and medicines | 18 | ||
| Of diets | 18 | ||
| Of production of cold | 18 | ||
| Of turning air into water | 19 | ||
| Of induration of bodies | 20 | ||
| Of preying of air upon water | 21 | ||
| Of the force of union | 22 | ||
| Of making feathers and hairs of divers colours | 22 | ||
| Of nourishment of young creatures in the egg, or womb | 22 | ||
| Of sympathy and antipathy | 22 | ||
| Of the spirits or pneumaticals in bodies | 23 | ||
| Of the power of heat | 23 | ||
| Of impossibility of annihilation | 24 | ||
| Century II. | |||
| Of music | 24 | ||
| Of the nullity and entity of sounds | 26 | ||
| Of production, conservation, and delation of sounds | 28 | ||
| Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds | 29 | ||
| Of loudness and softness of sounds | 32 | ||
| Of communication of sounds | 32 | ||
| Of equality and inequality of sounds | 32 | ||
| Of more treble and base tones | 33 | ||
| Of proportion of treble and base | 34 | ||
| Of exterior and interior sounds | 34 | ||
| Of articulation of sounds | 35 | ||
| Century III. | |||
| Of the lines in which sounds move | 36 | ||
| Of the lasting and perishing of sounds | 36 | ||
| Of the passage in interception of sounds | 37 | ||
| Of the medium of sounds | 37 | ||
| Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds | 38 | ||
| Of mixtures of sounds | 38 | ||
| Of melioration of sounds | 39 | ||
| Of imitation of sounds | 40 | ||
| Of consent and dissent between audibles and visibles | 41, 42 | ||
| Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds | 43 | ||
| Of hindering or healping of hearing | 44 | ||
| Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds | 44 | ||
| Of orient colours in dissolution of metals | 45 | ||
| Of prolongation of life | 45 | ||
| Of the appetite of union in bodies | 45 | ||
| Of the like operations of heat and time | 45 | ||
| Of the differing operations of fire and time | 45 | ||
| Of motions by imitation | 45 | ||
| Of infectious diseases | 46 | ||
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