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Why butter prevents water from boiling. — 337

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History of the subtlety of corpses.	262	How candles may last a long time.	134
Cadmia. Cadmia: A term used in antiquity for zinc-rich ores or the oxide crusts found in smelting furnaces.	136	Dogs into wolves, and wolves into dogs.	228
Artificial cadmia.	142	Mute dogs.	228
Rules for singing.	309	Very fierce dogs.	228
How a blind man may be taught to write.	331	The wondrous sense of a dog.	228
Rules for engraving and painting.	174	How dogs are taught to fetch.	229
Why it is easier to engrave a profile (half face).	173	So that dogs do not bark.	347
Engraving a whole face is a matter of singular skill.	174	A nimble dog.	234
Engraving is far more difficult than sculpting.	174	The various powers of Spanish flies. original: "Cantharidum". These beetles were used in medicine for blistering.	223
The difference between celestial and mortal bodies in production.	332	Why hairs original: "Capilli" are thin.	264
The similarity of celestial and mortal things.	332	So that hair appears green.	352
The substance of the heavens is unequal and varied.	86	Three reasons why the bone of the head (the skull) is made of several pieces.	263
How great a part of the heavens is known.	86	What harder bones of the head signify.	263
Whether the surfaces of heavens touching each other are one.	91	The sutures of the head original: "Capitis futuræ", likely a typo for "suturæ" are very thin for four causes.	263
Blue pigments. original: "Cærulea"	138	Incantation for headache. see Incantation.
Blue/Azure.	142	Charcoals.	133
Caesar's bridge. see Bridge of C. Caesar.		Charcoals from the wood of valleys are better.	321
Calamochus. Possibly a reference to a specific mineral or plant; the term is obscure but appears in early modern natural histories.	191	How the best charcoals are made.	321
Vitriol. original: "Calchantum". Often refers to copperas or ferrous sulfate.	135	The carbuncle The gemstone, historically believed to glow in the dark..	169
Why vitriol blackens so much.	135	Properties of the carbuncle.	170
The difference between lime and ash.	44	Cardoons. original: "Cardi"	286
Praise for the calculator (accountant).	314	Types of thistles.	286
Fourfold heat.	48	How meats are seasoned or preserved.	287
How putrid heat generates animals. see How animals are generated from putrid heat.		How flesh is pierced without pain. see Wound without pain.
Heat, motion, and subtlety as causes in turn. see Subtlety.		Why flesh is never extremely hot.	250
Why heat is stronger than cold.	333	So that flesh appears to crawl with worms.	352
Things that strengthen the heat of the stomach. see Stomach.		Why Carthusian monks are not infested with bedbugs.	245
The works of heat.	333	Why Cassia fistula A medicinal pod, the "Golden Shower tree". does not grow in our lands.	208
Transmutations of heats into each other.	49	Castoreum. see Beaver.
The difference between putrid and fiery heat.	52	Human accidents (misfortunes). see Human accidents.
Why lime is ignited by water.	32	Cataclysm. see Deluges or Inundations.
What camphor or "caphura" is.	131	Cat. see Cat.
The powers of hemp leaf flour.	206	How cause, occasion, and principle differ.	370
Crabs.	245	Cauterization without pain.	191
An inextinguishable candle.	352	Guenons (long-tailed monkeys).	234
A candle burning from ice.	352	Why the membrane containing the brain is very thin and very hard.	264
		Why overturned wax candles are extinguished.	27
		White lead. original: "Cerussa"	144
		Sea monsters/Whales. original: "Cete"	236
		Oil smeared on steel. see Oil.