CONTENTS 



or THE 



FIRST VOLUME. 



The INTRODUCTION. 



Of the gradual Improvement of Natural Philosophy. 



1. The Order observed in this Treatise $ 



2. The Method of philosophizing among the Hebrews and 



Egyptians ib a 



3. Among the Greeks. The philosophy of Pythagoras, 



Plato, Aristotle ib. 



4. The different Method pursued by the four Greek Sects 4 



5. The Philosophy of the Schoolmen ib. 



6. The revival of philosophy by Lord Bacon - ib. 

 *7. Greatly promoted by philosophical societies ib, 

 8, The Improvement made in every Branch of it: in 



anatomy; the discovery of the circulation of the 



blood, of the lacteal veins j and the thoracic duct ib. 



