CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF

LEARNING, DIVINE AND MORAL.

BOOK I.

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The objections against learning considered 0

The objections of divines 6

The objections of politicians 11

Objections drawn from the fortune, manners, or studies of

'learned men 18

/ The diseases of learning 26

The dignity of learning shown 40

BOOK II.

Public obstacles to learning considered 68

The distribution of knowledge into particular sciences...... 74

Knowledge divided, according to man's three principal

faculties, into, I. History, which relates to memory.

II. Poksv, which flows from the imagination. III. Phi-

Losophy, which is the produce of reasoning 75
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History divided into, 1. Natural. 2. Civil 75

Natural history is of three sorts, 1. The history of genera-

tions. 2. Of preter-generations. 3. Of arts 76

Civil history divided into, 1. Memoirs. 2. Just history.

3. Antiquities 79

Just history divided into chronicles, lives, and narratives

or relations 80

History divided also into annals and journals 84

History ecclesiastical, divided into the history of the

Church; the history of prophecy; and the history of

providence 86

Appendices to history: speeches, letters, apophthegms .... 87

Poetry divided into, 1. Narrative. 2. Dramatical. 3. Pa-

rabolical 89

Philosophy divided into three branches, 1. Divine.

2. Natural. 3. Human 91

The trunk of all, a primitive or summary philosophy 92

Divine philosophy, or natural theology, relates to the
being and attributes of God; and the nature of angels

or spirits 9^

Natural philosophy, divided into speculative and practical. . 96

Speculative philosophy, or natural science, divided into

physics and metaphysics 97

Physics divided into, 1. The doctrine of the principles of

things. 2. The doctrine of the formation of things, or

the world. 3. The doctrine concerning the variety of

things 100

Metaphysics divided into, 1. The doctrine of forms. 2. The

doctrine of final causes 100

Mathematics divided into, 1. Pure. 2. Mixed 106

Pure mathematics divided into geometry and arithmetic .... 106

Mixed mathematics divided into perspective, music, astro-

nomy, cosmography, architecture, enginery, &c 106

Practical philosophy, or natural prudence, divided into

mechanics and magic 107

Human philosophy has two parts, human and civil 112

Human doctrine divided into, 1. The doctrine of the human

body. 2. The doctrine of the human soul 113

The doctrine of the union of soul and body divided into,

1. The doctrine of notices. 2. The doctrine of impres-

sion 114
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The doctrine of the human body divided into, 1. Medicine.

2. Cosmetics. 3. Athletics. 4. Arts of elegance 116

The doctrine of the human soul divided into, 1. The doc-

trine of the nature of the soul. 2. The doctrine of the

faculties of the soul 125

Appendices to the doctrine of the soul. 1. Divination.

2. Fascination -; 125, 126

The doctrine of the faculties of the soul divided into,

1. Logics. 2. Ethics 129

The intellectual arts are four, 1. The art of inquiry or

invention. 2. The art of examination. 3. The art of
custody or memory. 4. The art of elocution or tradi-
tion: 129, ISO

Ethics divided into, 1. The doctrine of the image of good.

2. The georgics or cultivation of the mind 160, 161

Good divided into simple and compound; Private good, and

the good of society 161

The cultivation of the mind regards, 1. Different disposi-

tions. 2. Affections. 3. Remedies 174, 186

Civil doctrine divided into three kinds of doctrine or pru-

dence. 1. Prudence in conversation. 2. Prudence in

business. 3. Prudence in government -... 186

SYLVA SYLVARUM; OR A NATURAL HISTORY,

IN TEN CENTURIES.

CENTURY I.

Of straining or percolation, outward and inward 239

Of motion upon pressure 241

Of separations of bodies liquid, by weight 243

Of infusions, in water and air 244

Of the appetite of continuation in liquids 247

Of artificial springs 247

Of the venomous quality of man's flesh .... 248

Of turning air into water 248

Of helping or altering the shape of the body 260

Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nourishment 250
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Of flame and air commixed 251

Of the secret nature of flame 252

Of flame, in the midst, and on the sides 253

Of motion of gravity 254

Of contraction of bodies in bulk 254

Of making vines more fruitful 255

Of the several operations of purging medicines 255

Of meats and drinks most nourishing 259

Of medicines applied in order 266

Of cure by custom 266

Of cure by excess 267

Of cure by motion of consent 267

Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition 268

Of preparation before and after purging 268

Of stanching blood 269

Of change of aliments and medicines 269

Of diets 270

Of production of cold 270

Of turning air into water 272

Of induration of bodies 275

Of preying of air upon water 278

Of the force of union 279

Of making feathers and hairs of divers colours 279

Of nourishment of young creatures in the egg, or womb .. 280

Of sympathy and antipathy 280

Of the spirits, or pneumaticals in bodies 281

Of the power of heat 283

Of impossibility of annihilation 285

CENTURY II.

Of music 286

Of the nullity and entity of sounds 291

Of production, conservation, and delation of sounds 295

Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds 300

Of loudness and softness of sounds 305

Of communication of sounds: 306

Of equality and inequality of sounds 307

Of more treble and base tones '.. 309