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Telluris Theoria Sacra, Authore T. Burnetio* Lond. 168I, Ato, Philos, 



Collect. N° 3, p. 75. 



The learned and ingenious author, considering the earth as one of the greater 

 bodies of the world, has endeavoured in this volume to give an account of its 

 production, duration, progress, and changes, from physical causes, or the me- 

 thod of nature in the progress of other beings, and thereby to reconcile what 

 we find in sacred history concerning it with a rational and philosophic theory, 

 which was not done as he conceives before now. 



n Fosforo overo la Pietra Bolognese preparata per rilucere fra r Ombre, fatica di 

 Marc Antonio Cellio delV Academia Fisico-mattematica di Roma, 168O. 

 Philos. Collect. W 3, ^.77. 



The principal places near Bononia where the stone is to be found are, 1 . At 

 Pradalbino. 2. In a small brook near the village Roncania; in which is found 

 great quantity also of a white stone, like sal ammoniac; also another kind of 

 ferruginous stone, which yields a vitriolate and stiptic efflorescence. 3. At 

 Monte Patemo, which is most noted of all for these stones, especially of sucb 

 as are easiest to be prepared. 



It is commonly reported to have been found out by a shoemaker of Bologna, 

 called Vincenzo Casciareto, ingenious, and a lover of chemistry, who trying to 

 get gold out of it, by chance observed this shining quality in its calx, without 

 any other addition of lime, sulphur, talc, antimony, or any other substance. 



It has no certain figure, but some are round, others cylindrical, others lenti- 



parts of the body, and that not till after the disappearance of the vesicular eruption, is, as indeed Dr. 

 Konig himself has hinted, a most remarkable circumstance ; and serves to show how cautious practi- 

 tioners should be in repelling or suppressing some kinds of cutaneous affections. — It will be seen in 

 N° 181 and 182 of the Transactions, that two of the calculi, which Dr. Konig's patient discharged 

 by the intestinal canal, and which were sent to the Royal Society from Berne, were examined by Dr. 

 Slare, who found them to dissolve, with effervescence, in acids. 



♦ Dr. Tho. Burnet was a learned divine, and author of several ingenious works, besides this on 

 the theory of the earth j which, though containing many uncommon beauties, yet the theory is fan- 

 ciful, and repugnant to the true principles of philosophy, as was demonstrated by Mr. Keil, and 

 other authors. The second part of this work appeared in l689i and the whole was afterwards pub- 

 lished in English. Dr. Burnet was bora at Croft, in Yorkshire, l635, and educated at Clare-hall, 

 Cambridge. In l685 he was appointed master of the Charter- house; in which situation he had the 

 merit of opposing King James, who had ordered the governor to admit a papist as a pensioner of the 

 house. In 1692 he published his Archaeologiae Philosophicae ; in which he took some liberties with 

 the book of Genesis; which not only stopped his further promotion in the church, but occasioned 

 his dismission from the office of clerk of the closet. He died at the Charter- house in 1715, at 80 

 years of age. 



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