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!!!!1627 __ Sylva Sylvarum : Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries - Experiments in consort touching Music * Francis Bacon (1561-1626) * ''Original excerpt :'' « — CENTURY III — ^[...^] 281 — The experiment of sympathy may be transferred, perhaps, from instruments of strings to other instruments of sound. As to try, if there were in one steeple two bells of unison, whether the striking of the one would move the other, more than if it were another accord; and so in pipes, if they be of equal bore and sound, whether a little straw or feather would move in the one pipe, when the other is blown at an unison. — It seemeth, both in ear and eye, the instrument of sense hath a sympathy or similitude with that which giveth the reflection, as hath been touched before; for as the sight of the eye is like a crystal, or glass, or water; so is the ear a sinuous cave, with a hard bone to stop and reverberate the sound; which is like to the places that report echos. ^[...^] — 285 — ^[...^] There be these differences in general, by which sounds are divided : 1) Musical, immusical, 2) Treble, base, 3) Flat, sharp, 4) Soft, loud, 5) Exterior, interior, 6) Clean, harsh, or purling, 7) Articulate, inarticulate. We have laboured, as may appear, in this inquisition of sounds diligently; both because sound is one of the mist hidden portions of nature, as we said in the beginning, and because it is a virtue which may be called incorporeal and immateriate; where of there be in nature but few. Besides, we were willing, now in these our first centuries, to make a pattern or precedent of an exact inquisition; and we shall do the like hereafter in some other subjects which require it. For we desire that men should learn and perceive, how severe a thing the true inquisition or nature is; and should accustom themselves by the light of particulars to enlarge their minds to the amplitude of the world, and not reduce the world to the narrowness of their minds. ^[...^] » ''(Francis Bacon, 1627)'' * ''Source :'' {small}F. Bacon (1627). ''Sylva sylvarum''. In ‘The Works of Francis Bacon — Philosophical works : Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and moral. Sylva sylvarum; or a natural history in ten centuries (century I - VIII)’. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, etc., London (1826). New edition in ten volumes, vol. 1, pp. 286-316, pp. 318-341, and pp. 474-475.{/small} {br}{br}
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