10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERNATATION»
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
SUPERNATATION. «. s. I from supernato, Latin.] The act of swimming on the top
of any thing. — Touching the supernatation of bodies, take of aquafortis 2 ounces
, of quicksilver » drams, the dissolution will not beara flint as big as 3 mit- meg.
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
Boyle, * SUPERNATATION. n. s. [from supernato, Latin.] The act of swimming on
the top of any thing. — Touching the supernatation of bodies, take of aquafortis s
ounces, of quicksilver » drams, the dissolution will not bear a flint as big as a ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
Touching the supernatation of bodies, take of aquafortis two ounces, of
quicksilver two drams, the dissolution will not bear a flint as hie as a nutmeg.
Bacon. Bodies are differenced by supernatation, as floating on water; for chrystal
will sink in ...
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, 1805
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
SUPERNATATION, s. [from supernato, Lat.] The act of swimming on the top of
auy thing. — Bodies are differenced by supernatation, as floating on water; for
chrystal will sink in water, as carrying in its own bulk a greater ponderosity than
the ...
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Remarkable providences illustrative of the earlier days of ...
The devil may have power to cause supernatation on the water in a person that
never made any compact with him ; and many times known and convicted
wizards have sunk under the water when thrown thereon. In the Bohemian
History ...
Increase Mather, George Offor, 1856
1 04 ; of Alexander and Numa found after their death, ii. 104 ; experiment
touching the supernatation of, ii. 107; preservation of, ii. 108; touching the fixation
of, ii. 108; insensible perception in, ii. 109; touching hard and soft, ii. 115;
liquinable, ii.
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, 1841
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
[from supernato, Lat.] The act of swimmingon the top of any thing.—-Bodies are
dilferenced by supernatation, as floating on water; for chrystal will sink in water,
as carrying in its own bulk a greater ponderosity than the space of any water it
doth ...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England
104 ; of Alexander and Numa found after their death, ii. 104 ; experiment touching
the supernatation of, ii. 107; preservation of, ii. 108; touching the fixation of, ii. 108
; insensible perception in, ii. 109; touching hard and soft, ii. 115 ; liquifiable, ii.
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, 1850
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The Works of Francis Bacon
Supernatation of bodies, v. 54. Supcrstitio, nntitheta de ea, ii. 471. superstitiosa
philosophia, i. 268, 269. Superstition, the root of it, what, v. 157. opposition of, to
natural philosophy, vi. 421. errors resulting from its conjunction with philosophy, ...
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, 1870
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. ...
510 Of supernatation of bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 Of the flying of
unequal bodies in the air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 Of water, that it may be the
medium of sounds . . . . . . . . . . 512 Of the flight of the spirits upon odious objects .
