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J/eyetabte Statkh. 



fac this method, of fcarching into the nature 

 & from the great fuccefs that has 

 attended any attempts of this kind. 



Thus in relation to thofe Planets which 

 revolve'about our Sun, the great Philofo- 

 pher of our age has , by numbering and 

 Lafuring, difcovered the exad Proportions 

 that are obferved in their periodical revo- 

 lutions and diftances from their common 

 .centers of motion and gravity : And that 

 God has not only comprehended the duft 

 of the earth tn a mafire, and weighed the 

 Lntams tn fc ales, and the ^ in aba- 

 lance, Ifa. *1. i*. but that he alfo holds the 

 vaft revolving Globes, of this our folar by. 

 Hem, mod cxaftly polled on their common 



center of gravity. 



And if we reflcd upon the difcovcrics 

 that have been made in the animal cecono- 

 my , we {hall find that the molt consider- 

 able and rational accounts of it have been 

 chiefly owing to the ftatical examination 

 of their fluids^/**, by enquiring what quan- 

 tity of fluids, and folids diflblved into fluids, 

 the animal daily takes in for its fupport 

 and nouriihment: And with what force 



and different rapidities thofe fluids jire car- 

 ried 









