150 PHENOMENA OF THE UNIVERSE. 



contact of the very slightest heat, immediately begets ex 

 pansion. 



But in order to come at a more accurate knowledge of 

 the expansion of the air let into that elastic bladder, I took 

 an empty glass (I mean, filled only with air) and placed 

 upon the bladder the cap of which I before treated. 

 But when the phial was placed over the fire, the air ex 

 tended itself more quickly and with less heat than water 

 or spirit of wine, but with not a very ample expansion. 

 For it bore this proportion. If the bladder held less by 

 six ounces than the phial itself, the air completely filled 

 and inflated it; it did not ascend easily on greater expan 

 sion ; and no visible body proceeded out of it, after making 

 a little hole in the top of the bladder, until it was inflated. 



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DESCRIPTION OF THE INTELLECTUAL GLOBE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Division general of Hitman Learning into History, Poesy, 

 Philosophy, according to the three Faculties of the Mind, 

 Memory, Imagination, Reason; showing that the same 

 Division holds also in matters Theological; since the Ves 

 sel, namely Human Intellect, is the same, though the 

 matter contained, and the mode of its entrance, be dif 

 ferent. 



WE adopt that division of human learning which is cor 

 relative to the three faculties of the intellect. We there 

 fore set down its parts as three, History, Poesy, Philo 

 sophy : history has reference to memory, poesy to imagi 

 nation, philosophy to reason. By poesy in this place we 

 mean nothing else but feigned history. History is, properly, 

 the history of individual facts, the impressions of which 

 are the earliest and most ancient guests of the human 

 mind, and as it were the primitive matter of the sciences. 

 To deal with these individuals and that matter forms the 

 mind s habitual employment, and occasionally, its amuse 

 ment. For all science is the labour and handicraft of the 

 mind ; poetry can only be considered its recreation. In 

 philosophy the mind is enslaved to things, in poesy it is let 



