208 NOVUM OKGANUM. 



lio-neam, (puta latera navium, aut similia) quam eas- 



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clem sagittas ferro acuminatas, propter similitudmem 

 substantial ligni ad lignum, licet hoc ante in ligno 

 latucrit. Itulem, licet aer aerem, aut aqua aquam 

 manifesto non trahat in corporibus integris ; tamen 

 bul la approximata \m\\i\\ facilius dissolvit bullam, quam 

 si bulla ilia altera abesset, ob appetitum coitionis aqua? 

 cum aqua, et aeris cum acre. Atque hujusmodi uistan- 

 tice clandestine?, (qua; sunt usus nobilissimi, ut dictum 

 est) in portionibus corporum parvis et subtilibus ma- 

 xime se dant conspicicndas : quia massu; rerum majores 

 sequuntur formas magis catholicas et generales ; ut suo 

 loco dicetur r&amp;gt; &quot;. 



XXVI. 



Inter pnrrogativas instantiarum ponemus quinto loco 

 instnntias const ituticas, quas etiam manipulares appel- 

 lare consuevinms. Eu sunt, qua^ constituunt unam 

 speciem natunv inquisita; tanquam formam minorem. 

 Cum enim fornitv legitinin* (qua sunt semper converti- 

 biles cum naturis inquisitis) lateant in profundo, nee 

 facile inveniantur; postulat res et infirmitas humani 

 intellectus, ut formac particulares, quse sunt congrega- 

 tiviu manijndorum quorundam instantiarum (neutiquam 



a? It is difficult to say what Ba- for &quot; Forms,&quot; these Instances are 



con s meaning is in this passage. most valuable. It is, however, 



as Collective Instances, in Ba- strange that though Kepler s Laws 

 con s classification, are no other had been published, he makes no 

 than general facts, or laws of some reference to them. They were ex- 

 degree of generality, and are them- actly what he meant by Collective 

 selves the results of Induction.&quot; Instances; and afterwards aided 

 Herschel s Disc. 194. Bacon Newton in his discovery of the 

 seems to think it right to apologise; more general &quot; Law&quot; of Gravita- 

 and says that they constitute &quot; tan- tion. But Bacon never illustrates 

 quam formam minorem.&quot; How any from Mathematics, and very rarely 

 Nature in his system can have lesser from the discoveries of his cotempo- 

 and larger Forms seems hard to be raries. 

 understood. Apart from his desire 



