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continued to cherish and encourage men in doubting. 
To which kalendar of doubts or problems, I = ale 
advise be annexed another kalendar, as much raigoriaes 
: : c roblema- 
or more material, which is a kalendar of 4), in na- 
popular errors: I mean chiefly in natural ‘ra, 
history, such as pass in speech and conceit, Catalogus 
and are nevertheless apparently detected and /#/sitatum 
convicted of untruth; that man’s knowledge or a 
be not weakened nor imbased by such dross jayure, 
and vanity. As for the doubts or mon ligquets 
general or in total, I understand those differences of 
opinions touching the principles of nature, and the funda- 
mental points of the same, which have caused the diversity 
of sects, schools, and philosophies, as that of Empedocles, 
Pythagoras, Democritus, Parmenides, and the rest. For 
although Aristotle, as though he had been of the race of 
the Ottomans, thought he could not reign except the 
first thing he did he killed all his brethren; yet to those 
that seek truth and not magistrality, it cannot but seem 
a matter of great profit, to see before them the several 
opinions touching the foundations of nature. Not for any 
exact truth that can be expected in those theories ; for as 
the same phenomeng in astronomy are satisfied by the 
received astronomy of the diurnal motion, and the proper 
motions of the planets, with their eccentrics and epicycles, 
and likewise by the theory of Copernicus, who supposed 
the earth to move, and the calculations are indifferently 
agreeable to both, so the ordinary face and view of expe- 
rience is many times satisfied by several theories and 
philosophies; whereas to find the real truth requireth 
another manner of severity and attention. For as Aris- 
totle saith, that children at the first will call every wo- 
man mother, but afterward they come to distinguish 
