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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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After
this,
they
took
a
Charcoal,
and
viewing
it
with
one
of
their
best
Microscopes,
discovered
in
it
an
infinite
multitude
of
pores,
some
bigger,
some
less;
so
close
and
thick,
that
they
left
but
very
little
space
betwixt
them
to
be
filled
with
a
solid
body;
and
to
give
her
Imperial
Majesty
a
better
assurance
thereof,
they
counted
in
a
line
of
them
an
inch
long,
no
less
then
2700
pores;
from
which
Observation
they
drew
this
following
Conclusion,
to
wit,
That
this
multitude
of
pores
was
the
cause
of
the
blackness
of
the
Coal;
for,
said
they,
a
body
that
has
so
many
pores,
from
each
of
which
no
light
is
reflected,
must
necessarily
look
black,
since
black
is
nothing
else
but
a
privation
of
light,
or
a
want
of
reflection.
But
the
Empress
replied,
That
if
all
Colours
were
made
by
reflection
of
light,
and
that
Black
was
as
much
a
colour
as
any
other
colour;
then
certainly
they
contradicted
themselves
in
saying
that
black
was
made
by
want
of
reflection.
However,
not
to
interrupt
your
Microscopical
Inspections,
said
she,
let
us
see
how
Vegetables
appear
through
your
Glasses;
whereupon
they
took
a
Nettle,
and
by
the
vertue
of
the
Microscope,
discovered
that
underneath
the
points
of
the
Nettle
there
were
certain
little
bags
or
bladders,
containing
a
poysonous
liquor,
and
when
the
points
had
made
way
into
the
interior
parts
of
the
skin,
they
like
Syringe-pipes
served
to
conveigh
that
same
liquor
into
them.
To
which
Observation
the
Empress
replied,
That
if
there
were
such
poyson
in
Nettles,
then
certainly
in
eating
of
them,
they
would
hurt
us
inwardly,
as
much
as
they
do
outwardly?
But
they
answered,
That
it
belonged
to
Physicians
more
then
to
Experimental
Philosophers,
to
give
Reasons
hereof;
for
they
only
made
Microscopical
inspections,
and
related
the
Figures
of
the
Natural
parts
of
Creatures
according
to
the
representation
of
their
glasses.
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