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id: A43288
author: Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
date: 1683
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mime: application/xml
words: 5817
sentence: 128
flesch: 50
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title:
  Præcipiolum: or The immature-mineral-electrum The first metall: which is the minera of mercury. By Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont.

summary:
  When you have the sign that your Mercury will hardly mix with your Gold , and your Gold will not enter into your Mercurium vivum , then power on it the clearest and fairest Water ( distilled is best ) that it may go over three Fingers breadth your Gold and Mercury , then wash it well , stirring it with your Pestel the Gold and the Mercury and the Water together which is in the Morter , I say you shall wash it together very well , until you see your Water is discoloured blewish black : Then is the sign that the Gold doth let fall the Tartarum or Praecipiolum in the Water and maketh it blewish black , then power off the Water into a Glass ( observe that not any Mercury may fall with the powring out the blewish Water ) then powr more fresh Water upon your Gold and Mercury , and wash it again as is mentioned , and when your Water is blew again powr off the Water to the former Water in the Glass , and thus continue washing till your Water remain white , then power this Water to the other Water in the Glass , and cover your Glass very close , that not any foulness may fall into the Glass . This Praecipiolum is the matter whereof shall be made the Philosophers Mercury , that is , when it is reduced to his first matter , that is in a clear Water , like the Water which runs out of our Eyes now and then , and is slippery : This Water will eat and drink his own Flesh and Blood , and multiply it self with it ad infinitum , and this Water will bring all Gold and Silver into their first matter , before Praecipiolum is brought into his first matter , ( it is when it is prepared Philosophically without Corrosiveness ) it will cure triplicem Hydropem , podagram , morbum venerium and also many more sicknesses .


id: A80720
author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
title: A proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy. By A. Cowley.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
words: 6324
sentence: 209
flesch: 59
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summary:
  For the supplying of which Defect , it is humbly proposed to his Sacred Majesty , his most Honourable Parliament , and Privy Council , and to all such of his Subjects as are willing and able to contribute any thing towards the advancement of real and useful Learning , that by their Authority , Encouragement , Patronage , and Bounty , a Philosophical Colledge may be erected , after this ensuing , or some such like Model . That the Revenue of this Colledge amount to four thousand pounds a year .


id: A67006
author: Woodward, John, 1665-1728.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9504
sentence: 285
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/A67006.txt
title:
  Brief instructions for making observations in all parts of the world as also, for collecting, preserving, and sending over natural things : being an attempt to settle an universal correspondence for the advancement of knowledg both natural and civil / drawn up at the request of a person of honour and presented to the Royal Society.

summary:
  4. The Hygrobaroscope , or small Glass Instrument , with the Neck or Stemm graduated into small Divisions , serving to try and compare the Gravity of Liquids , Waters , &c. 5. A Dipping-needle ; in order to observe the several Degrees of its Inclination in all Parts , both at Sea and Land. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.


id: A42815
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
title: A further discovery of M. Stubbe in a brief reply to his last pamphlet against Jos. Glanvill.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14870
sentence: 473
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Did I ever write against THEM , Their Degrees , Habits , and L●…arning , as Popi●… , and A●…tichristian ? But some Worthy Men ( who yet have the Opinion of M. S. that ●…e deserves ) advised , that since I had written , I should publish , and give him this other Blow , that so while he was staggering under the former , he might he laid flat by this .


id: A44322
author: G. T.
date: 1678
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18818
sentence: 394
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A44322.xml
txt: txt/A44322.txt
title:
  Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or, Of spring explaining the power of springing bodies : to which are added some collections viz. a description of Dr. Pappins wind-fountain and force-pump, Mr. Young's observation concerning natural fountains, some other considerations concerning that subject, Captain Sturmy's remarks of a subterraneous cave and cistern, Mr. G.T. observations made on the Pike of Teneriff, 1674, some reflections and conjectures occasioned thereupon, a relation of a late eruption in the Isle of Palma / by Robert Hooke ...

summary:
  I printed a little Tract , which I called , An Attempt for the explication of the Phenomena , &c. of the rising of water in the pores of very small Pipes , Filtres , &c. And being unwilling then to publish this Theory , as supposing it might be prejudicial to my design of Watches , which I was then procuring a Patent for , I only hinted the principle which I supposed to be the cause of these Phaenomena of springs in the 31 page thereof in the English Edition , and in the 38 page of the Latine Edition , translated by M. Behem , and printed at Amsterdam , 1662. But referred the further explication thereof till some other opportunity . Upon this Principle I remember to have seen long since in Wadham Colledge , in the Garden of the learned Dr. Wilkins , late Bishop of Chester , a Fountain so contrived as by the Spring of the included Air to throw up to a great height a large and lasting stream of water : Which water was first forced into the Leaden Cistern thereof by two force Pumps which did alternately work , and so condense the Air included into a small Room .


id: A28309
author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19642
sentence: 595
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A28309.xml
txt: txt/A28309.txt
title:
  The novum organum of Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans epitomiz'd, for a clearer understanding of his natural history / translated and taken out of the Latine by M.D.

summary:
  A Syllogisme consists of Propositions , Propositions of Words , Words interpret Notions , therefore if Notions , the basis of Things be confus'd , and rashly abstracted from things , nothing will be firm that is built upon them , therefore our only assurance is in a right induction . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , after a serious perusal , I did scarce know what was to be set aside ; for all the things things therein contained , are so material and seasonable , that I have wondred , that our English Curiosi have not had the desire to study and understand the directions that are 〈◊〉 given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their mistaken 〈◊〉 .


id: A35745
author: Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
title: A discourse of a method for the well guiding of reason, and the discovery of truth in the sciences
date: 1649
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22504
sentence: 451
flesch: 48
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txt: txt/A35745.txt
summary:
  I doubted not , but that it was by the same that they have examin'd ; although I did hope for no other profit , but only that they would accustome my Minde to nourish it self with Truths , and not content it self with false Reasons . But that which pleas'd me most in this Method was the assurance I had , wholly to use my reason , if not perfectly , at least as much as it was in my power ; Besides this , I perceived in the practice of it , my minde by little and little accustom'd it self to conceive its objects more clearly and distinctly ; and having not subjected it to any particular matter , I promised my self to apply it also as profitable to the difficulties , of other sciences as I had to Algebra : Not that I therefore durst at first undertake to examine all which might present themselves , for that were contrary to the order it prescribes .


id: A26553
author: Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24475
sentence: 1213
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A26553.xml
txt: txt/A26553.txt
title:
  Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / by D. Abercromby ...

summary:
  The first signifieth , that whatever 〈◊〉 generally affirmed of any thing , m●… likewise be affirm'd of whatever is contain'd under that thing , as if I s●… Every Animal is a living Creature , th●… it follows , that a Bird is a living Cre●tur● ▪ The second signifieth , that what ever is generally denied of any thing is denied likewise of whatever is contain'd under that thing ; as if I say No Animal is a Stone , then I may , an cught likewise to say , No Bird is Stone , No Man is a Stone , &c. I then b● allowed to say , without the least suspicio● of flattery , that you are not only th● la●ful Successor of the most Ancient , mo● Noble , and Loyal Family of the Thai● of Calder , and of their Estate and For ▪ tune , but also , that you are already possess'd of these good and great Endowments both of Body and Mind , which made them capable of the great Employments they were intrusted with , and enabled them on all occasions to render the Kings of Scotland and Great Britain such signal Services , as can never be forgotten .


id: A60020
author: Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30402
sentence: 958
flesch: 62
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title:
  A philosophical essay declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater world from which occasion is taken to search into the origin of all bodies, discovering them to proceed from water and seeds : being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the kidneys and bladders of men / written by Dr. Thomas Sherley ...

summary:
  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Mot , &c. and Thales , and Orpheus's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; and all of them the same with Moses his Chaos and Water , as will appear by comparing their descriptions together . Nay , Metals themselves in time , having past their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or prime , degenerate into middle-Minerals , and Salts ; and then return to water .


id: A61893
author: Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. History of the Royal Society of London.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33764
sentence: 928
flesch: 52
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title:
  A reply unto the letter written to Mr. Henry Stubbe in defense of The history of the Royal Society whereunto is added a Preface against Ecebolius Glanville, and an answer to the letter of Dr. Henry More, containing a reply to the untruthes he hath publish'd, and a censure of the cabbalo-pythagorical philosophy, by him promoted.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. For then a Man might have charged every impious and pernicious Paragraph upon that large body of Men , but so it is that it comes abroad into the World with an Imprimatur from Secretary Morrice , of whom we cannot perswade the people to believe otherwise , but that he stands two or three removes off from Popery .


id: A42822
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34026
sentence: 982
flesch: 52
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title:
  Plus ultra, or, The progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle in an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning, to encourage philosophical endeavours : occasioned by a conference with one of the notional way / by Jos. Glanvill.

summary:
  Besides These , he hath a great many other unpublish'd Inqui●●es , and Series of Experiments and Obser●●tions of the most considerable parts of ●●tural Philosophy . For the other , I have th● Suffrage of all that ever pretended to understand any thing of the Prophetick Spirit , as I could at large make appear , if I thought any needed information and conviction in this mat●● , besides my Reverend Anta●●nist : Or , if I had neither Evi●●nce nor Authority to vouch me in ●ose Sayings ; yet the Charge of ●●heism , is like the bolt of one ●●at throws hard words in haste , and without aim or judgment .


id: A57681
author: Ramazzini, Bernardino, 1633-1714.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41006
sentence: 897
flesch: 53
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title:
  The Abyssinian philosophy confuted, or, Tellvris theoria neither sacred not agreeable to reason being for the most part a translation of Petrus Ramazzini, Of the wonderful springs of Modena : illustrated with many curious remarks and experiments by the author and translator : to which is added a new hypothesis deduced from Scripture and the observation of nature : with an addition of some miscellany experiments / by Robert St. Clair ...

summary:
  Iulius Caesar Recupitus tells , in his History of the burning of Vesuvius , that at the same time it did send forth two Streams , one of Fire towards the shoar , another of Water on the other side that looks to the Plain of Nola , the Fire not only keeping time with the Waters , but also producing them : For 't is to be thought that by force of the violent Heat diffus'd over the Mountains , so great a quantity of Waters was exhaled from some Cistern that held the Sea-water , that it was sufficient for making a Torrent . That though the height of the water be the same in the Vessel , and the same Horizontal Pipe be inserted into it ; yet in the perpendicular Pipes , according to the difference of their Situation , there is a notable difference of the altitude of the water in one and the other , as in Fig. 7. Let the Vessel A B C D be full of Water , the Pipe D H be inserted into it , and shut in the Extremity , and let F G H I be the Glass Pipes erected perpendicularly , but M the Pipe pouring out water .


id: A42823
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 45540
sentence: 1330
flesch: 59
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txt: txt/A42823.txt
title:
  A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill.

summary:
  [ That the Uirtuosi intended to write his life ; ] when I dare say , there was never more thought of ●o this purpose , than some such collection out of his Writings and I have made ; and therefore he might have forborn the Complements of mean spirits , and pitiful , ridiculous Mechanicks , which he bestows on them on this occasion : For there are none of those Gentlemen but scorn to be so dirty , impertinent , and so like M. Stubbe , as to meddle with any passages of his Life , which do not tend to the weakening him in that unworthy cause in which his pride and spight have engaged him . This he proves , because I mention Sava●orol● among the Improvers of the History of Baths ; and a man that knew Authors as well as M. Stubb , hath named him among those Natural Historians , the Person is Dr. Hackwel in his Apology , p. 283.


id: A48704
author: Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.
date: 1683
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 45996
sentence: 1616
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A48704.xml
txt: txt/A48704.txt
title:
  Letters and divers other mixt discourses in natural philosophy many of which were formerly published in the Philosophical transactions of Mr. Oldenburg, and part in the Philosophical collections of Mr. Hooke and else where : all which are now revised, augmented, and to them are added very many other matters of the same nature, not before published : also an intire treatis of the nature and use of colours in oyl. painting / written by M. Lister, F. of the R.S.

summary:
  ●thing like those of Aldrovandus de Testaceis , markt P. 359. It would ●●ert you , though you know them as well as I ,


id: A55584
author: Power, Henry, 1623-1668.
date: 1664
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 48500
sentence: 1337
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A55584.xml
txt: txt/A55584.txt
title:
  Experimental philosophy, in three books containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power ...

summary:
  Such things as are requisite for the triall of these Experiments , are 1. A Quart at least of ( ☿ ) Quicksilver . I. Experiment 1. TAke a Glass-Tube of above 29 inches in length , as AB , closed at the end B , and open at A : fill it full of Quicksilver , and so close the end A , exactly with the thumb ( as with a stoppel ; ) then reverse it , and putting it and your finger together into the wooden vessel D , fill'd about two inches deep with Quicksilver , erect it perpendicularly therein ; then drawing away your finger from the orifice , your shall see a great part of the Quicksilver in the Tube to make a quick and smart descent into the external Quicksilver in the vessel ; and after it hath , by several vibrations up and down , found out a certain point or degree , there to stand still and immoveable : so that all the upper part of the Tube ( which the Mercury has deserted ) viz.


id: A46233
author: Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46973
sentence: 2422
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A46233.xml
txt: txt/A46233.txt
title:
  An history of the constancy of nature wherein by comparing the latter age with the former, it is maintained that the world doth not decay universally in respect of it self, or the heavens, elements, mixt bodies, meteors, minerals, plants, animals, nor man in his age, stature, strength, or faculties of his minde, as relating to all arts and science / by John Jonston of Poland.

summary:
  Nephillim that were before the Flood , were men , as the Interlineary glosse expounds it , of huge bodies and proud mindes , great strength , unruly manners , yet is not the opinion of Chrysostome against this , who saith that the Scripture calls , Noble strong and warlike Men , Gyants . II. What doe they say that think the Antipodes to be Men , whose feet walk against ours , do they say any thing ? Or is any Man so foolish to think there be men whose feet are higher than their heads ? or that their weights ly against the places ours do , turne the contrary way ? That Corn and Trees grow downward , that Rain , Snow , Hail , fall upwards upon the earth ? And Virgilius , Bishop of Salisbury was condemned for this of Heresie , by Pope Zachary .


id: A58185
author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 56706
sentence: 1492
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A58185.xml
txt: txt/A58185.txt
title:
  The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation being the substance of some common places delivered in the chappel of Trinity-College, in Cambridge / by John Ray ...

summary:
  The Natures and Divisions of Bodies p. 41 , 42 , 43. Again , though the Water being a cold Element , the most wise God hath so attempered the blood and bodies of Fishes in general , that a small degree of heat is sufficient to preserve their due consistency and motion and to maintain Life ; yet to shew that he can preserve a Creature in the Sea , and in the coldest part of the Sea too , that may have as great a degree of heat as Quadrupeds themselves ; he hath created great variety of these Cetaceous Fishes , which converse chiefly in the Northern Seas , whose whole Body being encompassed round with a copious Fat or Blubber ( which , by reflecting and redoubling the internal heat , and keeping off the external cold , doth the same thing to them that Cloths do to us ) is enabled to abide the greatest cold of the Sea-water .


id: A52075
author: Marshall, William, 17th cent.
date: 1670
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 56789
sentence: 1090
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A52075.xml
txt: txt/A52075.txt
title:
  Answers upon several heads in philosophy first drawn up for the private satisfaction of some friends : now exposed to publick view and examination / by William Marshall, Dr. of physick of the colledge of physicians in London.

summary:
  No wonder therefore if by the fluxe of an angle of contact , or of one of its sides , be created another kind of angle , holding no analogy with the former : the heterogeneity and improportionableness of right-lined angles and angles of Contact having been demonstrated . It is shewn , that Recto-convexe Angles of Contact are truly Angles according to the definition of Plane Angles .


id: A34110
author: Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
date: 1651
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 58821
sentence: 2235
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A34110.xml
txt: txt/A34110.txt
title:
  Naturall philosophie reformed by divine light, or, A synopsis of physicks by J.A. Comenius ... ; with a briefe appendix touching the diseases of the body, mind, and soul, with their generall remedies, by the same author.

summary:
  And though something of new observation be offered , yet to what purpose is it , that whole Books should therefore be written , and those new things found out so buried in things ordinary , that either a man hath no mind to enquire , what of new observation is in them , or cannot do it without tediousness of spirit and loss of time . For few Writers ( says hee ) bring any thing of their own : but onely steal , things and words , of which they make Books , &c. Which they know to be most truly spoken , who are to peruse that farrago of Books , wherewith we are yearly little less then overwhelmed .


id: A53045
author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 63893
sentence: 1936
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A53045.xml
txt: txt/A53045.txt
title:
  Ground of natural philosophy divided into thirteen parts : with an appendix containing five parts / written by the ... Dvchess of Newcastle.

summary:
  THE Sensitive Self-moving Parts , or Corporeal Motions , are the Labouring Parts of all Productions , or Fabricks of all Creatures ; but yet , those Corporeal Motions , are parts of the Creature they produce : for , Production is only a Society of particular Parts , that joyn into particular Figures , or Creatures : but , as Parts produce Figures , by Association ; so they dissolve those Figures by Division : for , Matter is a perpetual Motion , that is always dividing and composing ; AS for the manner , or ways , of all the several sorts , and particular perceptions , made by the different composed parts of Human Creatures ; it is impossible , for a Human Creature , to know any otherwise , but in part : for , being composed of parts , into Parties , he can have but a parted knowledg , and a parted perception of himself : for , every different composed part of his Body , have different sorts of Self-knowledg , as also , different sorts of Perceptions ; but yet , the manner and way of some Human Perceptions , may probably be imagined , especially those of the exterior parts , Man names the Sensitive Organs ; which Parts ( in my opinion ) have their perceptive actions , after the manner of patterning , or picturing the exterior Form , or Frame , of Foreign Objects : As for example , The present Object is a Candle ; the Human Organ of Sight pictures the Flame , Light , Week , or Snuff , the Tallow , the Colour , and the dimension of the Candle ; the Ear patterns out the sparkling noise ; the Nose patterns out the scent of the Candle ; and the Tongue may pattern out the tast of the Candle : but , so soon as the Object is removed , the figure of the Candle is altered into the present Object , or as much of one present Object , as is subject to Human Perception .


id: A50778
author: Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 69812
sentence: 1572
flesch: 49
cache: cache/A50778.xml
txt: txt/A50778.txt
title:
  A new treatise of natural philosophy, free'd from the intricacies of the schools adorned with many curious experiments both medicinal and chymical : as also with several observations useful for the health of the body.

summary:
  Therefore , the motions of Atoms , are neither equal nor every where alike , but they do vary according to the diversity of Bodies whereby they are driven , or as the figures of them are more or less fitted for motion , or otherwise , according to the proportion of Vacuities , which are dispersed in bodies ; So that some Atoms are moved quicker , and others slower , not because some are heavier than others , but because they are driven backwards and forwards , or are stopped by others which do fix them , with the greater or less violence . CHAP. Of Special Qualities which arise from the Composition of Bodies . CHAP.


id: A43289
author: Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 67869
sentence: 2066
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A43289.xml
txt: txt/A43289.txt
title:
  A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton.

summary:
  The moss therefore of a scull , since it hath received its seminality from the celestial orbs , but its Matrix , conception , and increment from the mumial and medullary substance of the scull of man ; it is no miracle , that it hath obtained excellent Astral , and Magnetical virtues , far transcending the common lot of Vegetables ; although herbs also , in the capacity of herbs , have their peculiar Magnetisms : I will insert an observation of my own ; A certain Souldier of a noble extraction , wore a little lock of the moss of a mans scull , finely enclosed betwixt the skin and flesh of his head ; who in friendship interceding betwixt two brothers , that were fighting a mortal duel , unfortunately received so violent a blow with a sword on his head , that he immediately fell to the earth . A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt.


id: A48262
author: Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. aut
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 73427
sentence: 1888
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A48262.xml
txt: txt/A48262.txt
title:
  Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.

summary:
  Containing m●ny ple●sant Questions by way of Arithmetick● . Secondly , to give a greater grace to the practice of these things , they ought to be concealed as much as they may , in the subtiltie of the way ; for that which doth ravish the spirits is , an admirable effect , whose cause is unknowne : which if it were discovered , halfe the pleasure is l●st ; therefore all the finenesse consists in the dexterity of the Act , concealing the meanes , and changing often the streame .


id: A28980
author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 84187
sentence: 1605
flesch: 37
cache: cache/A28980.xml
txt: txt/A28980.txt
title:
  Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities among which is inferred a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities : together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

summary:
  For whereas 't is affirm'd , that this irresistible Menstruum will dissolve all tangible bodies here below , so as they may be reduc'd into insipid water ; as on the one side 't will be very hard to conceive how a specificated Menstruum that is determin'd to be either Acid , or Lixiviate , or Urinous , &c. should be able to dissolve so great a variety of Bodies of differing and perhaps contrary natures , in some whereof Acids , in other Lixiviate Salts , and in others Urinous are predominant ; so on the other side , if the Alkahest be not a specificated Menstruum , 't will very much disfavour the Opinion of the Chymists , that will have some Bodies dissoluble onely by Acids as such , others by fixt Alkalys , and others again by Volatile Salts ; since a Menstruum , that is neither Acid , Lixiviate , nor Urinous , is able to dissolve bodies , in some of which one , and in others another of those Principles is predominant : For , if I took upon me to demonstrate , that the Qualities of bodies cannot proceed from ( what the Schools call ) Substantial Forms , or from any other Causes but Mechanical , it might be reasonably enough expected , that my Argument should directly exclude them all .


id: A01516
author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
date: 1605
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sentence: 1678
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title:
  The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane To the King.

summary:
  For it is an excellent obseruation which hath beene made vpon the answeres of our Sauiour Christ to many of the questions which were propounded to him , how that they are impertinent to the state of the question demanded , the reason whereof is , because not being like man , which knowes mans thoughts by his words , but knowing mans thoughts immediately , hee neuer answered their words , but their thoughts : much in the like manner it is with the Scriptures , which being written to the thoughts of men , and to the succession of all ages , with a foresight of all heresies , coatradictions , differing estates of the Church , yea , and particularly of the elect , are not to be interpreted only according to the latitude of the proper sense of the place , and respectiuely towardes that present occasion , whereupon the wordes were vttered ; or in precise congruitie or contexture with the wordes before or after , or in contemplation of the principall scope of the place , but haue in themselues not onely totally , or collectiuely , but distributiuely in clauses and wordes , infinite springs and streames of doctrine to water the Church in euerie part , and therefore as the literall sense is as it were the maine streame or Riuer : This correctiue spice , the mixture whereof maketh knowledge so soueraigne , is Charitie , which the Apostle imediately addeth to the former clause , for so he sayth , Knowledge bloweth vp , but Charitie buildeth vp ; not vnlike vnto that which hee deliuereth in another place : If I spake ( sayth hee ) with the tongues of men and Angels , and had not Charitie , it were but as a tinckling Cymball ; not but that it is an excellent thinge to speake with the tongues of Men and Angels , but because if it bee seuered from Charitie , and not referred to the good of Men and Mankind , it hath rather a sounding and vnworthie glorie , than a meriting and substantiall vertue .


id: A53055
author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
date: 1655
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mime: application/xml
words: 85965
sentence: 1765
flesch: 46
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title:
  The philosphical and physical opinions written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle.

summary:
  VVHatsoever hath an innate motion , hath knowledge ; and what matter soever hath this innate motion , is knowing , : but according to the several motions , are several knowledges made ; for knowledge lives in motion , as motion lives in matter : for though the kind of matter never alters , yet the manner of motions alters in that matter : and as motions alter , so knowledge differs , which makes the several motions in several figures to give several knowledge . And where there is a likenesse of motion , there is a likenesse of knowledge : As the Appetite of Sensitive spirits , and the desire of rational spirits are alike motions in several degrees of matter .


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  polygoni hoc est figurae variis terminatae angulis lineas quasdam super quibus propugnaculum aedificandum est


