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ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE following tranflation was begun from the Latin Edition 

 publifhed in Holland, but after the tranflator had proceeded in the 

 work as far as the conclufion of the fubje6ls defcribed in the two 

 firft plates, he obtained from Holland the original Dutch Edition. 

 He has carefully compared the two verfions, and finds that the 

 Dutch is faithfully rendered in the Latin, and confequently that the 

 lienfe of the author is not injured by the Englifli being fo far taken 

 from thence. The learned reader may himfelf form a judgment 

 of this, by the following paragraphs, taken from the Dutch and 

 Latin Editions, whereto an Englifli tranflation is fubjoined, and in 

 which care has been taken to follow the Dutch original as literally 

 as poffible. 



" Wy willen dan hoopen, dat de onderfoekers der natuurlyke 

 " zaken, die tct nog toe verborgentheden dieper en dieper fullen 

 " op delven, om alfoo meer en meer de waarheid voor de cogen 

 " geftelt hebbende, van veele oude dwalingcii, een afkeer te doen 

 " kr3'gen, waar na alle die de waarheid lief hebben behooren te 

 " tragten. Want zcy en konnen den Heer en Maaker van het geheel 

 ^ Al, niet meer verheerlyken, ah dat wy in alle zaken, hoe klein die ook 

 *' in onfe bloote oogen mogen zyn, ah ze maar levejien zvasdom hebben 

 " ontfangen, zyn Al-xvyjljeit en Vohnaaktheit, met de uiterjle venvon- 

 dering fien uit Jleken." 



Leeuvvenhoeks Brieven, 99fte mifllve. 



" Speramiis ergo naturce indagatores omnem in poflerum in id 

 " impenfuros operam, ut ea, qua? adhuc in ejus fmu occulta latent 

 " ulterius in propatulo ponant, atque ita in hominibus, veritatis 

 " lumine illuftratis, antiquorum errorum ingenerent faflidium; 

 •' quod omnium veritatem amantium fludium efle decet. Kon enim 

 " hujus nniverfi Dominum atque Opifxeni melius nos glorijicarc pojje 



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