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1 OF Physicks or Naturall Phylosophy in General. 3 2 OF the generall part of Physicks. 4 3 Of the affections of Naturall body in general.General 30 4 OF the Speciall part of Physicks & 1st of the heavens in. ge[?] 14 5 OF the Heavens in Speciall. 25 6 OF Terrestriall bodies and of Elements in generall. 29 7 OF Elements in Special and first of Fire 34 8 OF air. 38 9 OF Water. 44 10 OF Earth. 62 11 OF mixt bodie in general and its affections 66 12 OF the Species of mixt bodies & 1.st of firery meteours. 68 13 OF Comets. 75 14 OF airy meteours. 79 15 Watery meteours. 84 16 OF appearing meteours. 90 17 OF perfectly mixt bodies and [first?] of Stone 95 18 OF mettals and mineralls. 98 19 OF animate bodies in generall & speciall vegetables & [sensibles?] 106 20 OF the growing faculty 113 21 OF Procreation 117 22 OF sensative Living bodies 125 23 OF Seeing 128 24 OF Hearing 137 25 OF Smelling, Tast, and Touch. 147 26 OF Interious Senses. 152 27 OF ye[the] Sensative appetite 156 28 OF Locomotion. 158 29 OF Secondary affections, awake and sleep 163 30 OF the Species of Animals, Brutes and men 165 31 OF the World. 176
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[pref?] Naturall Phylosophy 1 ____________________________
A System of Physicks The Preface
The usual [problem?] of Physicks shows it to be a Science in that is hath all ye[the] requisites which to science do be long viz: ye[the] end contemplation, and ye[the] object a reall, necessary being:
I the end contemplation; ye[the] end indeed of ye[the] Science or that which puts a man upon ye[the] study of nature both it may and should be, both practice and operation; and yt[that] in many ways as medicine, husbandry, and all handy-crafts, & trades, which can never be well handled without some un derstanding of ye[the] nature of those things which we have in hand; yet ye[the] end and last design of ye[the] science it self is to enable a man to contemplate; & meditate on ye[the] nature of bo dies: and ye[the] like may be said of all other sciences. the scient meditates for operation, ye[the] science has its end in contem plation.
2 the object or subject handled is naturall body a reall and necessary being; necessary in ye[the] Genus body, and ye[the] species th ereof, though allways very mutable in its Individualls it is necessary yt[that] body in generall, or any of its species: ie: what soever is a body, should have matter, form, time, place &c: though in this or that particular body, ye[the] matter may be al tered, ye[the] form destroyed, ye[the] time ended, or ye[the] place changed.
Body in generall is necessary
but in ye[the] Individualls doth vary.
now beause of ye[the] necessity which is scientificall, there are many things in nature most certain & demonstrable & yet it must be acknoledged, yt[that] ye[the] Doctrine of bodies admits of more
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more disputes yn[then] any other point of Phylosophy so yt[that] ye[the] grea test part of it is made up of opinions and conjectures how yt[that] comes to pass which appears to be; this they call ye[the] solving the Phenomena of nature. you may remember in Logick the rule of setting probable opinions is by sense, observation, experience, and induction; now because some things fall out in a place, or age more observable yn[than] in another; and because also men in several places and times are born of more yn[than] ordinary re ach. Sagacity, oppertunities, and encouragements; and last ly because there is a mutual subserviency of arts, and like stones in an arch which support each of them, and some of these have been at several ^times and by degrees improved, as for in stance, Printing, optick-glasses, chymistry, anatomy, Botanicks, hence it is, yt[that] latter observants do contradict ye[the] former Hypotheses, or Suppositions; and therefore these new discoveries do beget new suppositions, which after observations will be again regulating; so yt[that] in this matter we cannot say certainly what is ye[the] very truth, but what seems most probable according the ye[the] discoveries already made. and hence grows a distinction of ye[the] old, and new Phylosophy and there will be a newer still (in all likli hood as to some particulars) even unto ye[the] end of ye[the] world.
where new appearance is before ye[the] eyes,
new suppositions thereupon arise.
and yet notwithstanding this uncertainty, it is not impertinent for men to be inquisitive unto ye[the] mystery of nature naturall, viz. (ye[the] creation) which is ye[the] work of nature naturing ^viz. (the creator) because it makes for ye[the] glory of god and our own good: yea it is his command yt[that] we should meditate upon all his works, both of creation and providence. its Davids practice; Psalms 143 5. I meditate on all thy works. I muse on ye[the] works of thine hands. this is ye[the] travel yt[that] god has given to ye[the] sons of men to be exercised in it. Eccl: 3.10. yea, though it be perfectly unconq uerable by ym[them]: he hath made every thing beautifull in its time. also he has set ye[the] world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh form ye[the] beginning to ye[the]end: Eccl: 3.11. See also Job 11.7: yet hath he set it in their hearts. he hath given ym[them] an instinct of enquiry; and pleasure concomitant to encourage them. ye[the] works of ye[the] Lord are great; sought out of all ym[them] that have pleasure therein. psa: 111.2. it is as prov: 18.1. through desire a man having separated;