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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
39
This
Relation
confirmed
the
Empress
in
the
opinion
concerning
the
motion
of
the
Earth,
and
the
fixedness
of
the
Sun,
as
the
Bird-men
had
informed
her;
and
then
she
asked
the
Worm-men,
whether
Minerals
and
Vegetables
were
generated
by
the
same
heat
that
is
within
the
Bowels
of
the
Earth?
To
which
they
could
give
her
no
positive
answer;
onely
this
they
affirmed,
That
heat
and
cold
were
not
the
primary
producing
causes
of
either
Vegetables
or
Minerals,
or
other
sorts
of
Creatures,
but
onely
effects;
and
to
prove
this
our
assertion,
said
they,
we
have
observed,
that
by
change
of
some
sorts
of
Corporeal
motions,
that
which
is
now
hot,
will
become
cold;
and
what
is
now
cold,
will
grow
hot;
but
the
hottest
place
of
all,
we
find
to
be
the
Center
of
the
Earth:
Neither
do
we
observe,
that
the
Torrid
Zone
does
contain
so
much
Gold
and
Silver
as
the
Temperate;
nor
is
there
great
store
of
Iron
and
Lead
wheresoever
there
is
Gold;
for
these
Metals
are
most
found
in
colder
Climates
towards
either
of
the
Poles.
This
Observation,
the
Empress
commanded
them
to
confer
with
her
Chymists,
the
Ape-men;
to
let
them
know
that
Gold
was
not
produced
by
a
violent,
but
a
temperate
degree
of
heat.
She
asked
further,
Whether
Gold
could
not
be
made
by
Art?
They
answered,
That
they
could
not
certainly
tell
her
Majesty,
but
if
it
was
possible
to
be
done,
they
thought
Tin,
Lead,
Brass,
Iron
and
Silver,
to
be
the
fittest
Metals
for
such
an
Artificial
Transmutation.
Then
she
asked
them,
Whether
Art
could
produce
Iron,
Tin,
Lead,
or
Silver?
They
answered,
Not,
in
their
opinion.
Then
I
perceive,
replyed
the
Empress,
that
your
judgments
are
very
irregular,
since
you
believe
that
Gold,
which
is
so
fixt
a
Metal,
that
nothing
has
been
found
as
yet
which
could
occasion
a
dissolution
of
its
interior
figure,
may
be
made
by
Art,
and
not
Tin,
Lead,
Iron,
Copper
or
Silver,
which
yet
are
so
far
weaker,
and
meaner
Metals
then
Gold
is.
But
the
Worm-men
excused
themselves,
that
they
were
ignorant
in
that
Art,
and
that
such
questions
belonged
more
properly
to
the
Ape-men,
which
were
Her
Majesties
Chymists.
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