Firing Force Research Articles

An extract of a letter not long since written from Rome, rectifying the relation of salamanders living in fire

This came from that expert anatomist M. Steno, to Dr. Croon; videl. That a knight called Corvini, had assured him, that, having cast a salamander, brought him out of the Indies, into the fire, the animal thereupon swell'd presently, and then vomited store of thick slimy matter, which did put out the neighbouring coals, to which the salamander retired immediately, putting them out again in the same manner, as soon as they rekindled, and by this means saving himself from the force of the fire, for the space of two hours, the gentleman above-mentioned being then unwilling to hazard the creature any further: