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TRANSLATION OF THE ABECEDARIUM NATURE, 

 BY ARCHBISHOP TENNISON. 



PUBLISHED IN THE BACON IANA, 1679. 



THE SAME IN ENGLISH BY THE PUBLISHER. 



A Fragment of a Book written by the Lord Verulam, and 

 entituled, The Alphabet of Nature. 



SEEING so many things are produced by the earth and 

 waters ; so&quot; many things pass through the air, and are re 

 ceived by it; so many things are changed and dissolved 

 by fire ; other inquisitions would be less perspicuous, 

 unless the nature of those masses which so often occur, 

 were well known and explained. To these we add inqui 

 sitions concerning celestial bodies, and meteors, seeing 

 they are some of greater masses, and of the number of 

 Catholic bodies.* 



Greater Masses. 



The sixty-seventh inquisition. The threefold Tau, or 

 concerning the earth. 



The sixty-eighth inquisition. The threefold Upsilon, 

 or concerning the water. 



The sixty-ninth inquisition. The threefold Phi, or con 

 cerning the air. 



The seventieth inquisition. The threefold Chi, or con 

 cerning the fire. 



The seventy-first inquisition. The threefold Psi, or 

 concerning celestial bodies. 



The seventy-second inquisition. The threefold Omega, 

 or concerning meteors. 



Conditions of Entities. 



There yet remain, as subjects of our inquiry, in our al 

 phabet, the conditions of beings, which seem, as it were, 

 transcendentals, and such as touch very little of the body 

 of nature. Yet by that manner of inquisition which we 

 use, they will considerably illustrate the other objects. 



* See the distribution, in 1. 2. c. 3. de Augm. Scient. p. 234, 135, 136. 

 Ed. Lugd. Bat. 1. 3, c. 4, p. 231 . And c. 4. Globi Intellect, p. 88, 89. 



