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 Fitfthly, to tnake Compofitions and Coagulations of ‘feveral Salts td= 
gether into the fame mafs, to obferve’ of what Figure the produ of 
them would be; and in all, to note as many circumftanees as I fhould 
‘judge conducive to my Enquiry. | ne a 
Sixthly, to enquire the clofenels or rarity of the texture of thefe bo- 
dies, by examining their gravity, and thelr refraction; oe.) 
_ Seventhly, to enquire particularly what operations the fire has upon 
feveral kinds'of Salts, what changes it caufes in theit Figures, Téxtures, 
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' Eighthly, to examine their manher of diflolution, or ating upon thofe 
‘bodies difidluble in them} The texture of thofe bodies’ before and after 
‘the procefs. And this for the Hiftory.. 2", 1D ef DOG ARONA 
~~ Next for the ‘Solution, To have examin’d by what, and’ how ‘many 
en fuch and fuch Figures, actions and effets could be produc'd 
oflibly. ; it } ORG bi TUMOR DIS VF 3 110 31 
3 And latty, from all circumftanves well weigh’d, I fhould have'endea- 
voured to have {hewn which of them was moft likely} and’ (ifthe infor 
mations by thefe Enquiries would have born it) to have demonftrated 
which of them it muft be, and was. Ayton Parts 
~~ Butto proceed, ‘As [believe it next to the Globular the moft fimple; 
fodo I, inthe fecond place, judge it not-lefs pleafant 5 for that whith 
niakes an Enquiry pleafant, are, firft a‘noble Inventum. that' promiifes'to 
crown the fuccefsfull endeavour std fitch muft certainly the knowled 
of the efficient and concurrent €aufes of all thefe curious Geoniet Ca’ 
Figures be,which has thade the Philofophers hitherto’ to cénelude nature 
in thefe things to play the Geometrician, according to that faying’of 
Plato, “o 23; youl. Or next, a great variety of matter in the Enqui- 
ry; and here we meet with nothig lefs than the Mathensaticks of nature, 
havVing every day a new Figure to contemplate,or a variation of the fame 
in another body, | iS Fe 
~~ Which do afford usa third thing, which will yet more {weeten the En- 
quiry,and that is,a multitude of information ; we are not fo much ak ay 
in the dark, as in moft other Enquiries, where the Zxventum is great ; for 
having fucha multitude of inftances to compare, and fuch eafic ways of 
Benerating or compounding and of deftroying the formas in the\So/ution 
and Cryftallization of Salts, we cannot but learn plentifull information to 
proceed by. And this will further appear fromthe univerfality ot the 
Principle which Nature has made ufe of almoftinall inanimate bodies. 
And therefove. asthe contemplation of them all conducesto the know- 
ledg of any one; fo froma Scientitical knowledge of any orle does follow 
thefameofall;and every one. = oe 
And fourthly, for the ufefulne& of this knowledge, when a uir'd, 
rtainly none can doubt, that confiders that it caries us a ftep for- 
watd into the Labirinth of Nature, in the right way towards the end 
we propofe our felves in all Philofophical Enquiries. So that know- 
ing what is the form of Inanimate or Mineral bodies, we thall be the 
er able to proceed in our next Enquiry after the forms of Vegeta- 
tive 
