For the Baconians out there

Those of you planning to write on the New Atlantis may find this interesting. Attached to the original manuscript of Bacon's work (and published with it in its first edition) was a list of "Magnalia naturae, praecipue quoad usus humanos" -- great works of nature especially intended for human utility. Their relation to the utopia is not specified, but presumably they have something to do with the sciences that would be necessary in Bensalem. Inexplicably, the editor of our edition omits them (I meant to circulate them at the time, but forgot -- apologies) so here they are:

The prolongation of life.
The restitution of youth in some degree.
The retardation of age.
The curing of diseases counted incurable.
The mitigation of pain.
More easy and less loathsome purgings.
The increasing of strength and activity.
The increasing of ability to suffer torture or pain.
The altering of complexions, and fatness and leanness.
The altering of statures.
The altering of features.
The increasing and exalting of the intellectual parts.
Versions of bodies into other bodies.
Making of new species.
Transplanting of one species into another.
Instruments of destruction, as of war and poison.
Exhilaration of the spirits, and putting them in good disposition.
Force of the imagination, either upon another body, or upon the body itself.
Acceleration of time in maturations.
Acceleration of time in clarifications.
Acceleration of putrefaction.
Acceleration of decoction.
Acceleration of germination.
Making rich composts for the earth.
Impressions of the air, and raising of tempests.
Great alteration; as in induration, emollition, &c.
Turning crude and watery substances into oily and unctuous substances.
Drawing of new foods out of substances not now in use.
Making new threads for apparel; and new stuffs; such as paper,glass, &c.
Natural divinations.
Deceptions of the senses.
Greater pleasures of the senses.
Artificial minerals and cements.

(For those of you who are suspicious about Bacon's methods for achieving the New Atlantis, a couple of these sciences may give you a lot to think about.)