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motus, iii. 777.

utrum per circulos perfectos, ib.
Coelum, first the offspring, then the bride, of
Earth, v. 469, 492.

terræ primo natus, deinde maritus, iii.
87.

doctrina Telesii de rotatione cœli, iii. 95
-98.

parabola de cœlo, iii. 94, 111.

tres cœli regiones, iii. 745.

quatuor superiores, iii. 746.

Aristotelis phantasticum, iii. 749.
Thema Coli, iii. 769-780.

tres flammeæ naturæ regiones, iii. 774.
motu diurno circumferri, iii. 773.

Coffa, a Turkish drink, ii. 576.

Coffee, a narcotic used by the Turks, v.
271.

Cogitata et Visa, iii. 591–620.

preface, iii. 589-590.
date of, i. 78-83.

Cogitationes de Naturâ Rerum, iii. 15—35.
preface to, iii. 13, 14.

date of, ib.

Coitio materiæ, tabula ejus, iii. 691.

in corporibus diversis, iii. 691-696.
in corporibus iisdem, iii. 696.

Cold, Bacon's doctrine of, i. 629.

the production of, ii. 370, 371.

greater degree of heat obtainable than of
cold, ii. 370.

causes of, ii. 370, 371.

the expiring of, out of the earth in
winter, ii. 370.

contact of cold bodies, ib.

the primary nature of all tangible
bodies, ib.

density of the body, ib.

a quick spirit enclosed in a cold
body, ii. 371.

the driving off the spirits which con-
tain heat, ib.

the effects of, ii. 649-652; iii. 619-
652.

artificial means of untried, iv. 237.

bodies possessing the power without the
sensation of cold, iv. 237, 238.

we must substitute condensations, iv.
238, 239.

whether it can be increased by a burning

glass, iv. 418.

dilatations of bodies by remission of, v.
370.

potential, contraction of bedies by, v. 397
898.

the earth, the original source of, v. 531.
See Heat, Frigus.

Coleridge, his censure of Bacon, iii. 516.
Coleworts, cultivation of, ii. 486, 488.
Colleges, want of liberality in their constitu-

tions, iv. 286.

the greater and lesser, iv. 299, 256 ; v. 510.
Collegia majora et minora, i. 398, 502; iii.
733.

Collegia-continued.

defectus eorum, i. 487-492.

ad usum et actionem non ad scien-
tiam universalem spectant, i. 487.
tenue stipendium prælectorum, i. 488.
in experimentis nulla liberalitas, i.
489.

exercitia scholastica antiquitus in-
stituta semper servata, i. 490.
nulla per Europam conjunctio aca-
demiarum, i. 491.

nulla cura elaborandi scientias adhuc
neglectas, ib.
Colliquatio, quid, ii. 213.

iucipit à pneumatico in corpore expan-
dendo, iii. 303.

Colliquation commences with the expansion

of the pneumatic part in the body, v. 399.
Collisio aëris vocabulum ignorantiæ, iii. 659.
Coloquintida, vapour of, its effect on apothe-
caries, ii. 648.

Colores boni et mali, tam simplices quam

comparati, i. 674-688.

oppositi, i. 685.

Colours, theory of the impressions of, ii. 432.

of flowers, ii. 503-505.

berries, ii. 503.

fruits, ii. 503, 504.
leaves, ii. 504, 505.

roots, ii. 504.

in dissolution of metals, cause of their
appearance, ii. 437.

of hair and feathers turn grey by age, ii.
620.

Democritus's theory of, iii 238.
have little correspondence with the na-
tures and proprieties of things, ib.
compared with sounds, ii. 388, 417, 421;
v. 410.

of apparent good and evil, iv. 458-472.
Columbus, i. 199; iv. 91.

story of the egg, whence derived, i. 459.
conjectured a western continent from the
periodical west winds, ii. 29; v. 149,
152.

analysis of the story, ib.

primo derisus postea præclarus, i. 459.
a statis ventis occidentibus continentem
occidentem conjecit, ii. 29.
Columnæ non ultra progrediendi fixæ, iii. 594.
Comets, i. 241.

Aristotle's notion respecting, iv. 178; v.

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Commentaries, iv. 303.

Commentarius solutus, iii. 525, 545, 624.
Commentators try for second prizes, iii. 226.

commentatorum labores, iii. 579.

Commodus imperator, i. 472.
Common law of England, i. 808.
Common-place books, the advantage of, iii.
398; iv. 435.

Commonwealths incline wits to glory and
vanity, iii. 252.

the nature of, seen in a family, iii. 332.
Comparative anatomy, iv. 385, 386.
Compensations of evil with good, v. 77.
Compression, effects of, iv. 235.

of water, experiment with a leaden globe,
v. 395.

Compressiones corporum, i. 352.

conception, theory of the formation of,i. 40.
Concoctio debilis, quomodo confortanda, ii.

222.

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Conjugation of questions, v. 516.
Conjugationes quæstionum, iii. 739
Consalvus, i. 720, 721.

Consensus, operationes per consensus et fugas,
i. 359-362.

est nil aliud quàm symmetria formaram
et schematismorum ad invicem, i. 359.
corporum principalium et fomitum suorum,
i. 360.

corporum principalium erga subordinata
sun, i. 361.

interiores corporum, ib.

sensuum erga objecta sua, ib.
plantarum, ib.

chymici, i. 359, 361.

inter lunam et terrestria, i. 362.
per appositionem simplicem, ib.

Consent is the adaptation of forms and confi-
gurations to one another, iv. 242.
consents and aversions, operations by, iv.
242.

between primary bodies and their subor
dinates, iv. 243.

of the senses with their objects, iv. 243.
consents and mutual aversions of plants,
iv. 244.

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of fruits, modes of, ii. 534, 535.
Conservative Good, iii. 426.
Consilia violenta, antitheta de iis, i. 705.
Consistency of matter caused by the apposi
tion of an alien body, v. 432.

consistencies of bodies very divers, ii. 614
-619.

liquefiable and not liquefiable of three
kinds, ii. 615.

fragile and tough, ii. 616.
pneumatical and tangible, ib.
concretion and dissolution, ib.
hard and soft, causes of, ii. 617.
softness of two kinds, ib.
ductile and tensile, ii. 617, 618.

sixteen other passions of matter enume-
rated, ii. 618, 619.

Consistentiæ causa appositio corporis alieni,

iii. 27.

consistentis natura in fluido, i. 273.
Constancy, antitheses for and against, iv. 481,
482.

Constantia, antitheta de, i. 697.

Consuetudo et habitus quid valent, i. 737–
713.

legis species, i. 808.

Consul paludatus, i. 792.

Consumption of matter, what, v. 320.

Contemplatio bivium contemplationis simile
bivio actionis, i. 461.

cum actione conjuncta, i. 462.

Contemplation of things as they are, more
worthy than all fruit of inventions, iv.
115.

antitheses for and against, iv. 482.

Contemplativa vita, cur non activæ præ-
ferenda, i. 718.
Contemplative and active life, iii. 421.
distinction between, ib.

contemplative inferior to the active, v. 8.
opinions of Aristotle and Pythagoras, ib.
Contemplators of nature long-lived, v. 280.
Contentious learning, a distemper of learning,
iii. 286.

Continuance the almoner of nature, iv. 241.
Continuatio inquisitionis, iii. 555.
Contractio corporum, ii. 285-301.

non omnis reciproca dilatationis, ii. 285.
per emissionem et depositionem corporis
introcepti, ii. 286, 287.

per angustationem partium crassiorum post
spiritum emissum, ii. 288-290.
per frigus actuale externum, ii. 290-295.
per frigus potentiale, ii. 296, 297.
per fugam et antiperistasin, ii. 297, 298.
per assimilationem sive conversionem in
densius, ii. 298, 299.

per violentiam externam, ii. 299, 300.
positiva per dissolutionem corporum in
liquoribus, ii. 300.

efficientia contractionis octo, ii. 301.
utrum majorem rationem ponderis nancis-
catur quam pro quantitate materiæ, ii.
247.

Contractio inquisitionis, iii. 556.
Contraction of bodies, v. 381-396.

not in all instances the reverse of dilata-
tion, v. 381.

by emission and putting away a body
received, v. 381-383.

by shrinking of the grosser parts after the
emission of the spirits, v. 383-385.
by actual external cold, v. 385-390.
by potential cold, v. 391, 392.

by flight and antiperistasis, v. 392, 393.
by assimilation or conversion into a denser
body, v. 393.

by external violence, v. 394, 395.
positive, of bodies taken up in solutions,
v. 396.

eight efficients of, ib.

whether close contraction of a body gives
weight greater than in proportion to
quantity of matter, v. 343.

of matter must take place in one of three
ways, v. 420.

Contraries, armies of, in the world, v. 475.
Contrariorum exercitus, iii. 92.
Controversy prejudicial to learning, iii. 403.
religious, now exhausted, v. 110.
too many books of, v. 118.
Conus, figura ejus ad quod utilis, i. 358.
Conversation, a part of civil knowledge, iii. 445.

the art of, often found wanting in orators,
iv. 458.

wisdom of, not to be despised, v. 32-34.
See Manners, Behaviour.

Conversationis artes, i. 747-749.
Conversion of matter of two kinds, assimila-
tion and transmutation, ii. 614.
of metals, iv. 367.

Convertibility of propositions, iv. 453.
Cookery, history of, proposed, iv. 269.
Copernicus, his theory corrected by natural
philosophy, iii. 229.

his system of astronomy, iii. 718.

his system cannot be refuted, may be cor-
rected, iv. 373.

his discoveries, ib.

his works on astronomy, v. 511.
first introduced a central sun, v. 517.
inconveniences of his system, ib.
scripta ejus astronomica, iii. 734.
quietem sive immobile e naturâ tollit, iii.
738.

in systemate ejus multa et magna inveni-
untur incommoda, iii. 740.

triplici motu terram oneravit, iii. 740.
Coppice planted aslope, ii. 481.
Copulation, ii. 492, 499, 638, 639. See
Venus, Disease.

Coquinaria historia conscribenda, i. 409.
Cor hominis eviscerati palpitans, ii. 208.
Coral a help to the teeth of children, ii. 583.
found near Sicily, ii. 592.

partakes of the nature of both animals
and vegetables, ii. 529.
Cordialia, ii. 155, 191.
Cordials, iii. 832.

enumerated, v. 264, 297.
for diet, v. 298.

Corn, the diseases of, ii. 546, 547.

remedies for them, ii. 547, 548.

friendship between corn and poppy, iv.

244.

Cornaro, his life prolonged by spare diet, v.
276.

Cornish diamonds exudations, ii. 340.
Corporeal nature and natural action, iv. 191.
Corpse will bleed before the murderer, ii.
660.

Corpus hominis, doctrina circa, i. 586-604.
bona corporis quatuor, sanitas, pulchri

tudo, vires, voluptas; totidem corporis
scientiæ, i. 586.

maximè errori obnoxium, maximè capax
remedii, i. 587.

microcosmus Paracelsi, ib.
multipliciter compositum, ib.

scala vitæ. ii. 210. See Body.
Cosmetic, iii. 370, 377; iv. 394.
Cosmetica, i. 602.

Cosmogony, doctrines of ancient philosophers

reviewed, v. 461-476.

Cosmographi, a patribus antiquis accusati, iii.
596.

Cosmographia, quid, i. 514.

Cosmography, iii. 340.

illustrations of, in the book of Job, iii.
298.

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Courtier, manners of a, v. 46.

Courts of Chancery, i. 810, 811.

Prætorian and Censorian, v. 94-97.
Cramp, charms for preventing, ii. 662.
Creatio, duplex virtutis divinæ emanatio, po-
tentiæ et sapientiæ, i. 464; iii. 111.
revisio opinionum philosophorum de ori-
gine mundi, iii. 87-94.

tria dogmata habemus ad quæ illi adscen-
dere non potuerunt, iii. 111.
Creation, theories of, held by the ancient philo-
sophers reviewed, iii. 461–476.

we have by faith three doctrines to which
they could not rise, iii. 491.
parts of the, assigned to the three persons
of the Godhead, iii. 488.

power and wisdom of God displayed in

the work of, iii. 295.

a double manifestation of the divine

nature, v. 491, 492.

order of, v. 139.

Creaturarum volumen, i. 469.

Credulitas, falsitatis vitium duplex, impostura
et credulitas, i. 455.

duorum est generum, cùm nimium cre-
ditur, i. 456.

vel facto, ut in Ecclesiasticis His-
toriis, ib.

vel dogmati, ut in Naturali His-
toriâ, il.

aut artibus ipsis, ib.

aut auctoribus in arte, ib.

Credulity and imposture, concurrence between,
iii. 287.

Crepuscula, quid, ii. 320.

Cretans, their character according to St. Paul,
v. 22.

Critici, tres eorum errores, i. 708, 709.
Criticism has three duties, iv. 493.

correcting and re-editing approved authors,
ib.

interpreting and annotating them, iv.
494.

reviewing their merits, ib.
Critics, errors of, iii. 414.

knowledge of, iii. 413.

Croceata lintea apud Hibernos usitata, ii.
177.

Crocus in aquâ infusus subtilitatem atomorum
ostendit, iii. 15, 16.

saccula croci circa stomachum in trans-
fretando, ii. 178. See Saffron.
Crudelitas, antitheta de eâ, i. 695.
Cruelty, antitheses for and against, iv. 479.
Crystal globe of the understanding, v. 59.

origin of crystals, i. 332.

used as cordials, v. 264.
Crystallorum origo, i. 332.

Cube used by Bacon in determining specific
gravities, ii. 233, 242.

Cucumbers, cultivation of, ii. 486.

seeds of, should be steeped in milk, ii.
488.

to make a hotbed for, ii. 489.

will grow towards water, ib.

Cullice of cocks, ii. 360.

Cultura animi, i. 731–742.

Cupid, or Love, treatise on the fable, v. 461.
two Cupids mentioned by the ancients, ib.
fable of the elder Cupid, ib.

not differing much from the philosophy of
Democritus, ib.

matter itself, and the force and nature
thereof, shadowed by, ib.

without parents, because the primitive
essence, force, and desire of things has
no cause, v. 462, 463.

hatched from an egg laid by Nox, because
all knowledge of him proceeds by exclu-
sions and negatives, v. 463.
signifies primary matter together with its
properties, v. 465.

described as a person, why, v. 466.

this agrees with Holy Writ, v.
468.
naked, why, ib.
represented as dressed, by diverse sects,
v. 469.

Thales, Anaximenes, and Heraclitns gave
him one garment, v. 470-473.
challenged to wrestle by Pan, iv. 325.
fable shows the importance attached by
Bacon to the method of exclusions,
i. 34. See Eros, Love.

Cupidinis et Coeli fabulae, iii. 65-118.
Cupido, sive Amor, fabulæ interpretatio, iii. 79
-91.

Cupidines duo ab antiquis ponuntur, iii.

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Thales, Anaximenes, et Heraclitus unam
sed non eandem vesten ei dederunt,
iii. 87-91.

Cupping glasses, iv. 235; v. 439.

nature of, v. 361. Sce Ventosa.
Cure of diseases, by custom, ii. 366.
by excess, ib.

by motion of consent, ii. 367.
Curiæ Prætoriæ et Censoriæ, i. 810-813.
Curiosity, v. 38.

Currentes, ex quibus causis, iii. 47, 48.

meræ compressiones aquarum, aut libera-
tiones a compressione, iii. 48.
in nari reguntur a ventis statis, ii. 29.
Currents, the causes of them, v. 444.

are mere compressions of water, or libera-
tions from compression, ib.

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of Bacon's fragmentary works, iii. 212.
Days of the week, their names whence, i. 554.
Deacervationem, dilatationes corporum per,
ii. 285, 300.

Dead sea, living bodies will not sink in, ii.
590.

black stone used there for fuel, ii. 591.
Death, motion the instant after, ii. 474.

remaineth in birds longer than in men,
why, ib.

fear of, mitigated by learning, iii. 314;
v. 14.

the art of the physician ought to mitigate
the pains of, iv. 387.

porches of, v. 311.

vitality after, v. 316, 317.
vitality of animals, v. 316.
precursors of, v. 315–317.

from the head, convulsions, v. 315.
from the heart, labour of the pulse,
ib.

changes following, ib.
vitality of animals, ib.
resuscitations from, v. 317.

provisional rules concerning the form of,
v. 320-335.

natural, how it destroys the human body,
v. 218.

the porches of, v. 334.

De Augmentis Scientiarum, i. 431-837.
dedicatio ad regem, i. 481-433.

divisio in duas partes, i. 433.

Debt, degrees of, iv. 466.

Deceit, the foulest disease of learning, iii.
287.

Dedications of books not to be commended,

iii. 281.

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young horn putteth off the old, ib.
generation of, ib.

Defects, importance of concealing, iii. 463.

of character, how to be concealed, v. 68.
Defectus occultandi, i. 781, 782.

1. cautione; 2. prætextu; 3. confidentiâ, ib.
Deficient parts of learning, how proposed to
be treated, iv. 23.

De Interpretatione Naturæ Proemiam, iii.
518-520.

preface to, iii. 507–517.
date of, iii. 507.

design of, i. 105.

Delay, antitheses for and against, iv. 489, 490.
De liberâ Monarchiâ, librum Jacobi I. lau-
datum, i. 728.

Deliquia animi, modi resuscitandi ex iis, ii.
209.

Democratie, the state of knowledge is one, iii.
227.

Democritus, his opinions not identical with those
of Lucretius, ii. 86.

his "motus plagæ," ii. 346.

story of, when dying, ii. 650.

his theory of physics deeper but less
popular than those of Aristotle or
Plato, iii. 228.

why it gave place to them, ib.

his theory of colours borrowed by Epi-
curus, iii. 238.

his school went furthest into nature, iv.
58, GO.

removed God from the structure of things,

.

iv. 363.

this disposed of the doctrine of final
Causes, iv. 364.

too fond of comparisons, iv. 452.

his remark on the paucity of species and
variety of individuals, v. 209.

his doctrine concerning atoms, ii. 381;
v. 419, 464; 514, 515.

compared with that of Hero, v. 421.
with that of Pythagoras, v. 422.
did not ascribe gravity to the atoms,
iii. 83.

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