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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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To
relate
all
their
Optick
observations
through
the
several
sorts
of
their
Glasses,
would
be
a
tedious
work,
and
tire
even
the
most
patient
Reader,
wherefore
I'le
pass
them
by;
onely
this
was
very
remarkable
and
worthy
to
be
taken
notice
of,
that
notwithstanding
their
great
skil,
industry
and
ingenuity
in
Experimental
Philosophy,
they
could
yet
by
no
means
contrive
such
Glasses,
by
the
help
of
which
they
could
spy
out
a
Vacuum,
with
all
its
dimensions,
nor
Immaterial
substances,
Non-beings,
and
Mixt-beings,
or
such
as
are
between
something
and
nothing;
which
they
were
very
much
troubled
at,
hoping
that
yet,
in
time,
by
long
study
and
practice,
they
might
perhaps
attain
to
it.
The
Bird-
and
Bear-men
being
dismissed,
the
Empress
called
both
the
Syrens-
or
Fish-men,
and
the
Worm-men,
to
deliver
their
Observations
which
they
had
made,
both
within
the
Seas,
and
the
Earth.
First,
she
enquired
of
the
Fish-men
whence
the
saltness
of
the
Sea
did
proceed?
To
which
they
answered,
That
there
was
a
volatile
salt
in
those
parts
of
the
Earth,
which
as
a
bosom
contain
the
Waters
of
the
Sea,
which
Salt
being
imbibed
by
the
Sea,
became
fixt;
and
this
imbibing
motion
was
that
they
call'd
the
Ebbing
and
Flowing
of
the
Sea;
for,
said
they,
the
rising
and
swelling
of
the
Water,
is
caused
by
those
parts
of
the
volatile
Salt
as
are
not
so
easily
imbibed,
which
striving
to
ascend
above
the
Water,
bear
it
up
with
such
a
motion,
as
Man,
or
some
other
Animal
Creature,
in
a
violent
exercise
uses
to
take
breath.
This
they
affirmed
to
be
the
true
cause
both
of
the
saltness,
and
the
ebbing
and
flowing-motion
of
the
Sea,
and
not
the
jogging
of
the
Earth,
or
the
secret
influence
of
the
Moon,
as
some
others
had
made
the
World
believe.
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