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An Account of some Books. N° 121, p. 505. 



,1. Pharmaceutice Rationalls, sive Diatriba de Medicamentorum Operationi- 

 biis in Humano Corpore ; Pars Secunda ; Auth. Tho. Willis, M. D. &c. E. 

 Theatro Sheldon iano, 1675. 



As we did not deem it necessary to retain the analysis given of the first part 

 of this book, and inserted in N*' 99, so, for the reason there assigned, we omit 

 an account of this. 



II. Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum, in quo primaria hujus Seculi 

 Inventa et Experimenta Physico-Mathematica, An. 1672, quibusdam Naturae 

 Scrutatoribus spectanda exhibuit, et ad causas suas naturales demonstrative me- 

 thodo reduxit Johannes Christophorus Sturmius,* Mathem. acPhys. in Academ. 

 Altdorfina, Prof. P. &c. Norimbergae, An. 1676, in 4to. 



The learned author of this piece, in the invitation he made to some students 

 in philosophy, at Altdorf in Germany, that they would unite under his conduct 

 for examining some of those discoveries and experiments made of late years, 

 remarks that in this one age, not yet elapsed, there has been far more progress 

 made in natural philosophy, than in many ages before, and chiefly by means 

 of that happy experimental method, employed by the Royal Societies of England 

 and France, and the noble colleges of Rome, Florence, Venice, &c. by which 

 method he says, the disputatious way of wrangling about mere scholastical and 

 fruitless notions being laid aside, things themselves from the inmost recesses of 

 nature have been searched into, and many of them discovered and brought to 

 light. Which, having first explained in his college lectures, he now in this 

 volume gives them to the public at large. The collection consists of 1 6 essays, 

 of a philosophical nature, treated of ; which he acknowledges to have been, at 

 least for the most part treated of, by some of the most eminent philosophers of 



♦ John Christ. Sturm, a celebrated mathematician and philosopher, was bom at Hippolstein, l635, 

 where he died in 1703. He was first minister of a church in Germany during five years ; and then 

 became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, at Altdorf in Germany. He exerted him- 

 self greatly, and was very useful, by his lectures and otherwise, in explaining and diffusing the know- 

 ledge and discoveries made in that remarkable age, the 17th century 5 as is manifest by his writings, 

 particularly the curious work above noticed. In l684 the author gave a second, and much larger 

 part, of the like collection of discoveries made till that aeraj with an appendix of fiirther additions and 

 explanations to the particulars in the 1st part. The same year also he published a large collection of 

 letters to Dr. Henry More, of Cambridge, on the controversy concerning the weight and spring of 

 the air. Sturm published also a German translation of Archimedes ; and several mathematical works 

 of his own J as, Mathesis Enucleata, in one volume 8vo. j andMathesis Juvenilis, in two large 

 volumes, 8vo. 



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