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Likewise load stones of prodigious virtue, and other rare stones both natural and artificial. We have also sound-houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation.
We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds, and lesser slides of sounds.Diverse instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have, together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet.
We represent small sounds as great and deep.Likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp. We make diverse tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire.
We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds.We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly.
We have also diverse strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it, and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper, yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive.
We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances, We have also perfume-houses, wherewith we join also practices of taste.We multiply smells which may seem strange.
We imitate smells, making all smells to breathe out of other mixtures than those that give them.We make diverse imitations of taste likewise, so that they will deceive any man's taste.
And in this house we contain also a confiture house, where we make all sweetmeats, dry and moist, and diverse pleasant wines, milks, broths, and salads, in far greater variety than you have.
We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines and instruments for all sorts of motions.
There we imitate and practice to make swifter motions than any you have, either out of your muskets, or any engine that you have, and to make them and multiply them more easily and with small force, by wheels and other means, and to make them stronger and more violent than yours are, exceeding your greatest cannons and basilisks.
We represent also ordnance and instruments of war, and engines of all kinds, and, likewise, new mixtures and compositions of gunpowder, wildfires burning in water, and unquenchable.Also fireworks of all variety, both for pleasure and use.
We imitate also flights of birds.We have some degrees of flying in the air. We have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking of seas, also swimming girdles and supporters.
We have diverse curious clocks and other like motions of return, and some perpetual motions.We imitate also motions of living creatures, by images of men, beasts, birds, fishes, and serpents.
We have also a great number of other various motions, strange for equality, fineness, and subtlety. We have also a mathematical house where are represented all instruments, as well of geometry as astronomy, exquisitely made.
We have also houses of deceits of the senses, where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illusions, and their fallacies.
And surely you will easily believe that we have so many things truly natural which induce admiration.Could in a world of particulars deceive the senses, if we would disguise those things, and labour to make them seem more miraculous?
But we do hate all impostures and lies, insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to all our fellows, under pain of ignominy and fines, that they do not show any natural work or thing adorned or swelling, but only pure as it is, and without all affectation of strangeness.
These are, my son, the riches of Salomon's house.
For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign countries, under the names of other nations, for our own we conceal, who bring us the books and abstracts and patterns of experiments of all other parts.
These we call merchants of light.We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books.These we call depredators.
We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts, and also of liberal sciences, and also of practices which are not brought into arts.These we call Mystery Men.We have three that try new experiments, such as themselves think good.
These we call Pioneers, or Miners.We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables to give the better light for the drawing of observations and axioms out of them.These we call Compilers.
We have three that bend themselves looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things of use and practice for man's life, and knowledge, as well for works as for plain demonstration of causes, means of natural divinations, and the easy and clear discovery of the virtues and parts of bodies.
These we call dowrymen, or benefactors.
Then, after diverse meetings and consults of our whole number to consider of the former labors and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former.
These we call lamps. We have three others that do execute the experiments so directed, and report them.These we call inoculators.Lastly, we have three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations, axioms, and aphorisms.
These we call interpreters of nature. We have also, as you must think, novices and apprentices, that the succession of the former employed men do not fail.
Besides, a great number of servants and attendants, men and women, and this we do also, we have consultations, which of the inventions and experiences which we have discovered shall be published, and which not.
and take all an oath of secrecy for the concealing of those which we think fit to keep secret, though some of those we do reveal sometimes to the State, and some not.For our ordinances and rites, we have two very long and fair galleries.
In one of these we place patterns and samples of all manner of the more rare and excellent inventions. In the other we place the statues of all principal inventors.
There we have the statue of your Columbus, that discovered the West Indies, also the inventor of ships, your monk that was the inventor of ordinance and gunpowder, the inventor of music, the inventor of letters, the inventor of printing,
the inventor of observations of astronomy, the inventor of works in metal, the inventor of glass, the inventor of silk of the worm, the inventor of wine, the inventor of corn and bread, the inventor of sugars, and all these by more certain tradition than you have.
Then have we diverse inventors of our own, of excellent works, which since you have not seen, it were too long to make descriptions of them.
And, besides, in the right understanding of those descriptions you might easily err, for upon every invention of value we erect a statue to the inventor, and give him a liberal and honorable reward.
These statues are some of brass, some of marble and touchstone, some of cedar, and other special woods gilt and adorned, some of iron, some of silver, some of gold.
We have certain hymns and services which we say daily of Lord and thanks to God for His marvellous works, and forms of prayers, imploring His aid and blessing for the illumination of our labours, and the turning of them into good and holy uses.
Lastly, we have circuits or visits of diverse principal cities of the Kingdom, where, as it cometh to pass, we do publish such new, profitable inventions as we think good.
And we do also declare natural divinations of diseases, plagues, swarms of hurtful creatures, scarcity, tempests, earthquakes, great inundations, comets, temperature of the year, and diverse other things.
And we give counsel thereupon, what the people shall do for the prevention and remedy of them.
And when he had said this, he stood up, and I, as I had been taught, kneeled down, and he laid his right hand upon my head, and said, God bless thee, my son, and God bless this relation which I have made.
I give thee leave to publish it for the good of other nations, for we here are in God's bosom, a land unknown.
And so he left me, having assigned a value of about two thousand ducats for a bounty to me and my fellows, for they give great largesses where they come upon all occasions.The rest was not perfected.
End of Section 6, and End of The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
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