CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUM E.

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF

LEARNING, DIVINE AND MORAL.

BOOK I.

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 shown..

BOOK II.

Public obstacles to learning considered

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

Knowledge divided, according to man's three principal

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

II. POɛSY, which flows from the imagination.
III. PHI-

LOSOPHY, which is the produce of reasoning..

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Just history divided into chronicles, lives, and narratives
or relations

HISTORY divided into, 1. Natural. 2. Civil

Natural history is of three sorts, 1. The history of genera-
tions. 2. Of preter-generations. 3. Of arts...

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

3. Antiquities...

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History divided also into annals and journals

History ecclesiastical, divided into the history of the

Church; the history of prophecy; and the history of

providence

Appendices to history: speeches, letters, apophthegms

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

rabolical .....

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PHILOSOPHY divided into three branches, 1. Divine.

2. Natural.

3. Human ..

The trunk of all, a primitive or summary philosophy ......

Divine philosophy, or natural theology, relates to the

being and attributes of God; and the nature of angels

or spirits....

Natural philosophy, divided into speculative and practical..

Speculative philosophy, or natural science, divided into

physics and metaphysics...

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

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

doctrine of final causes

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

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

Mixed mathematics divided into perspective, music, astro-

nomy, cosmography, architecture, enginery, &c.....

Practical philosophy, or natural prudence, divided into

mechanics and magic

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....

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

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

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

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

2. Fascination ...

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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 examination. 3. The art of

custody or memory. 4. The art of elocution or tradi-

tion....

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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

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

tions. 2. Affections. 3. Remedies...

Civil doctrine divided into three kinds of doctrine or pru-

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

business. 3. Prudence in government.. ..

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SYLVA SYLVARUM; OR A NATURAL HISTORY,

IN TEN CENTURIES.

Of condensing of air, to yield weight or nourishment

250

Of preserving the smell and colour in rose leaves..

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Of preservation of liquors in wells, or deep vaults

375

Of accelerating or hastening forward germination

Of retarding or putting back germination.

Of meliorating, or making better, fruits and plants.

Of compound fruits and flowers...

Of sympathy and antipathy of plants....

Of making herbs and fruits medicinable

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CENTURY VI.

Of curiosities about fruits and plants.

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Of the degenerating of plants, and of their transmutation

one into another

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Of the procerity and lowness of plants, and of artificial

dwarfing them...

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