5.23.2008

Words and Phrases from
the Record of the Minutes 1674-1703

smut in wheat

the impression of being undigested

like Whistler or Packer or Oliver Hill

to whales, to strange herbal decoctions, and their use as antidotes

propounding an aetherial explanation for its properties,

worms found 'in the head and brains of some creatures'

an account of hurricanes brought in by

his digester

the recent discovery of various kinds of 'phosphorous', including true phosphorus (the element)

they should speedily read

a new kind of wind-fountain of his own contrivance

in vacuo

not that he had as yet performed 'hundreds' of them

comparisons of the effects of condensed and rarefied air on birds, a much-tried subject by this date

Papin as an amanuensis.

Poisons were always a popular subject

to prevent the presence of 'strangers' at meetings

Brake the mercury glasse in the Parlour

followed by what the Diary calls 'much discourse'

viviparous snails

1 comment:

tooknap press said...

so dazzlng that I haven't been able to comment! elemental, digestive, amanuensic, aetherial, awesome. . .