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The following extract is from the section “Century IV” of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall
Historie in ten Centuries, published in London in 1627, and which was part of Bacon’s unfinished Instauratio Magna. Experiment Solitary, touching the Making of Gold. The books was published just after Bacon’s death in 1626, and was as it turns out quite well-received, a best-seller even, going through ten editions to 1670.
This section on the making of gold is included Century IV of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall Historie in ten Centuries… London, 1627, which was part of Bacon’s unfinished Instauratio Magna.
