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CONTENTS

FIRST VOLUME.

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF

LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMAN.

THE Objections against Learning considered,

The Objections of Divines,

The Objections of Politicians,

Objections drawn from the Fortune, Manners, or

Studies of Learned Men,

The Diseases of Learning,

The Dignity of Learning shewn,

Public Obstacles to Learning considered,

The Distribution of Knowledge into particular

Knowledge divided, according to Man's three principal

Faculties, into, I. HISTORY, which relates to Memory.

II. POESY, which flows from the Imagination.

III. PHILOSOPHY, which is the Produce of Reason-

HISTORY divided into, 1. Natural. 2. Civil, ibid.

Natural History is of three sorts, 1. The History of

Generations. 2. Of Preter-Generations.

Civil History divided into, 1. Memoirs. 2. Just His-

tory. 3. Antiquities,

Just History divided into Chronicles, Lives, and Narra-

tives or Relations,

History divided also into Annals and Journals, 85

History Ecclesiastical divided into, the History of the

Church; the History of Prophecy; and the History

Appendices to History: Speeches, Letters, Apoph-

POETRY divided into, 1. Narrative. 2. Dramatical.

3. Parabolical,
91

PHILOSOPHY divided into three branches, 1. Divine,

2. Natural. 3. Human,
93

The Trunk of all, a Primitive or Summary Philoso-
ibid.

phy,

Divine Philosophy, or Natural Theology, relates to the

Being and Attributes of God; and the Nature of

Angels or Spirits,
96

Natural Philosophy, divided into Speculative and Prac-

Speculative Philosophy, or natural Science, divided into
Physics and Metaphysics,

ibid.

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 concern-

ing the Variety of Things,

Metaphysics divided into, 1. The Doctrine of Forms.
2. The Doctrine of final Causes,
ibid.

Mathematics divided into, 1. Pure. 2. Mixed, 108

Pure Mathematics divided into Geometry and Arith-

Mixed Mathematics divided into Perspective, Music,

Astronomy, Cosmography, Architecture, Enginery,

&c.
ibid.

Practical Philosophy, or natural Prudence, divided into

Mechanics and Magic,
109

Human Philosophy has two Parts, human and civil,

Human Doctrine divided into, 1. The Doctrine of
the human Body. 2. The Doctrine of the human
Soul,
ibid.
The Doctrine of the Union of Soul and Body
divided into, 1. The Doctrine of Notices. 2. The
Doctrine of Impression,
ibid.

The Doctrine of the Human Body divided into,

1. Medicine. 2. Cosmetics. 3. Athletics. 4. Arts

The Doctrine of the Human Soul divided into,

1. The Doctrine of the Nature of the Soul. 2. The

Doctrine of the Faculties of the Soul,
127

Appendices to the Doctrine of the Soul.

tion. 2. Fascination,
127. 129

The Doctrine of the Faculties of the Soul divided

into, 1. Logics. 2. Ethics,

The intellectual Arts are four, 1. The Art of

Inquiry or Invention. 2. The Art of Examina-

tion. 3. The Art of Custody or Memory. 4. The

Art of Elocution or Tradition,

Ethics divided into, 1. The Doctrine of the Image

of Good. 2. The Georgics or Cultivation of the

Good divided into simple and compound; Private

Good, and the Good of Society,
166

The Cultivation of the Mind regards, 1. Different

Dispositions. 2. Affections. 3. Remedies, 177, 192

Civil Doctrine divided into three Kinds of Doctrine
or Prudence. 1. Prudence in Conversation.
2. Prudence in Business. 3. Prudence in Go-
vernment,
ibid.

SYLVA SYLVARUM; OR, A NATURAL HISTORY,

IN TEN CENTURIES.

Of straining or percolation, outward and inward, 245

Of motion upon pressure,

Of separations of bodies liquid, by weight,

Of infusions, in water and air,

Of the appetite of continuation in liquids,

Of artificial springs,

Of the venomous quality of man's flesh,

Of turning air into water,

Of helping or altering the shape of the body,

Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nourish-

Of flame and air commixed,

Of the secret nature of flame,

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

Of motion of gravity,

Of contraction of bodies in bulk,

Of making vines more fruitful,

Of the several operations of purging medicines,

Of meats and drinks most nourishing,

Of medicines applied in order,

Of cure by custom,

Of cure by excess,

Of cure by motion of consent,

Of cure of diseases contrary to predisposition,

Of preparation before and after purging,

Of stanching blood,

Of change of aliments and medicines,

Of production of cold,

Of turning air into water,

Of induration of bodies,

Of sympathy and antipathy,

Of the spirits, or pneumaticals in bodies,

Of the power of heat,

Of impossibility of annihilation,

Of preying of air upon water,

Of the force of union,

Of making feathers and hairs of divers colours,

Of nourishment of young creatures in the egg, or

Of the nullity and entity of sounds,

Of production, conservation, and delation of sounds, 303

Of magnitude, exility, and damps of sounds,

Of loudness and softness of sounds,

Of communication of sounds,

Of equality and inequality of sounds,

Of more treble and bass tones,

Of proportion of treble and bass,

Of exterior and interior sounds,

Of articulation of sounds,

Of the lines in which sounds move,

Of the lasting and perishing of sounds,

Of the passage in interception of sounds,

Of the medium of sounds,

Of the figures of bodies yielding sounds,

Of mixture of sounds,

Of melioration of sounds,

Of imitation of sounds,

Of reflection of sounds,

Of consent and dissent between audibles

Of sympathy and antipathy of sounds,

Of hindering or helping of hearing,

Of the spiritual and fine nature of sounds,

Of orient colours in dissolutions of metals,

Of prolongation of life,

Of the appetite of union in bodies,

Of the like operations of heat and time,

Of the differing operations of fire and time,

Of motions by imitations,

thereof

Of meats soon glutting, or not glutting,

Of infectious diseases,

Of the incorporation of powders and liquors,

Of exercise of the body, and the benefits or evils

ibid.

Of clarification of liquors, and the acceleration

Of maturation, and the accelerating thereof; and

of the maturation of drinks and fruits,

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