Theatrum naturae et artis

was resolved into 12,500 particles: or a grain of incense, which often fills a large room. Or it acts mediately through evaporation in a M. B. from the aspect of the secret: an abbreviation for Balneum Mariae, or water bath, for example: a human skull, stag horn, etc.

(d) By traction or percussion. For example, a grain of silver is extended into a wire of 27 feet, or 324 inches; any one of which, divided into 200 parts, will give 6,4800 short cylinders: a grain of gold extended into leaves is stretched to 50 square inches, which, divided into 200 parts, and these by parallel lines, leave two millions of tiny squares.

Those smallest particles still have their own shapes (a), although we do not always perceive them with the naked sense.

(a) Through microscopes, various shapes can be distinguished, for example, in club moss, sand, flour, sugar, etc.

Bodies are porous not only on the surface but also in their interiors, though some more, some less (a); and they emit effluvia gloss: emanations (b).