HER 
bius, (in Chron.) lived a little after Mofes, that j is, about t 50 
years after the Exodus of the Ifraelites ; and this 
lea 
+ ie relying upon the authority of Manetho, aed | by 
yncellus, reckons that this fecond Mercury is was 
or thrice-great. According to 
or Mercury tranflated from 
engraved tables of ftone, har had been hidden in a earth, . 
r M t 
the facred characters written by the firft Hermes er- 
cury, called Thaut or Thoth, and wrote the japhabalion in 
ooks which were depofited in the Egypt ian oe we ; and 
e of re- 
in their 
the other rules according to which the kings were to govern. 
Next came the “ Sloeatoapuia? ’ or that minifter, as Clemens 
informs us, who carried the four books of aflronomy, one 
treating of the fixed ftars, another of the eclipfes of the fun and 
moon, and the two laft of the bo of thefe two luminaries. 
Then onc ial pea the facred * Scribe,’’ with 10 books fn 
ed of cofmo hy, geography, the deferi tion of the 
Nile &c.: then “Bilewed We? St lit” ’ with ees 10 books 
on the fubje& of ae Se viR. facrifices, prayers, -feftival 
ys, &c. The = came next, with ro books, 
which were named facerdotal, and treated of the laws of the 
Sag ~ of ecclefiaical difcipline. Thus, fays the author 
there were 42 books in all, of which 36 compre- 
feat all that Salas to the Egyptian philofophy ; and 
other fix regarded pene and trea mas of  thek 
Giasthon Wi 
ceri ICAL Pinstosoriry, is that which under- 
Peas to folve and explain all the phenomena of nature from 
chemical principles, ! tate, fulphur, and mercury. 
A confiderable augmentation was made to the ancient 
ow philofoph 
2 eS Phyfic or Medicine, is that fyftem or hy- 
fis in art of healing, w which explains the caufes 
of difeafes, dhe operations of medicine, on the principles 
of a 
Hermeticat Seal, a SE of ftopping or clofing glafs 
tubes or veffels, for chemical or other operations, fo very 
accurately, that = ean exhale or efeape, not eve a the 
moft fubtle {pirit ning : 
oo Kt is Pectouad by heating the neck of the tube - or 
oe a lamp till it be ready to 
en with a pair - pincers abviting it clofe together. 
his they. c« putting on Hermes 
are alfo other ways of ioe vvelfels hermetically + ; 
ou topping them it a ‘plug or flopple of od well 
the neck of the veflel;, or, by turning, 
: php a deity, or figure of a ae compofed o 
, by the modern doétrine of alkali - 
of the hermetial peephy: and particularly on the fyftem. 
melt, and j 
HER 
phar philofophicum upon that wherein . the matter is cone 
For fealing a fmall ‘a hermetically, it is fufficient to 
hold it in the flame of the Iamp fl 
be large, the cents of glafs forming “the pul at the 
end’ muft be diminifhed, by foftening the end of the tube 
in the Tage: aa Supply ing to it a piece of another tube 
nearly of the fame fize, which will firmly adhere to it. 
Then let the tube which is to be fealed be foftened a 
ig higher up than the point of junéture, and pull the 
wo flowly in contrary agate til they feparate. The. 
ni will then draw out at the heated part into two fhort 
thin funnels, and a little turning and management of the 
flame will readily feal that which is wanted, leaving the 
joined ends, and about an inch of the om part of the 
tube, on the wafte-piece. See Lamp Blow 
HERMETRA, in Geography, one of she {maller weit. 
ern iflands of Scotland, N.E. of North Uilt. N. lat. 57? 
8’. 7 
: HEME ARPDCRATES, or signage Sse ic n in 
£ Mer- 
cury and Harpocrates, the god of filen 
. Spon gives us a Hemslsdepodedice in his Rech, Cur. 
de Pikeedquith, p- 15. 
like Mercury, and laying his finger on his mou 
Harpocrates. It is probable they might mean, by this 
combination, th:t filence is fometimes eloquen nt. 
NI, or Hermiarirx, in Ecc iefaftical Hif- 
tory, a feét of heretics in the fecond century, thus called 
from = leader Hermias. They are alfo denominated 
Seleucian 
One of their diftinguifhing tenets was, that God is cor- 
poreal: another, that Jefus Chriit did net afcend into hea- 
ven with his body, but teft it im the fur : 
HERMIAS, in Biography, a writer towards. the ms 
of the fecond century, according to Cave an 
who has left us a fhort but elegant difcourfe, eed 
« A Derifion, or Banter, of the Gentile Philofophe 
The hivore fhews that, in the time of the writer, Gentile 
ifm ailed, and that it mult have been hose 
the all pe Paganifm. The author quote 1g. 
HER iE, in a agi sep a Abin decatal on 
y 
the northern part of the Elide, near Cyllene, and faid b 
bagel to have cae founded ng Actor, fon. of na Fs 
and Herminia, who gave e it his mother’s 
its name. F a me 
Geagri » a town o rance, in 
department 0 eee lace of a canton, in the 
diltri& of Fomenay-le-Comte The place contains 406, 
and the ¢ oe Se —* on a territory of — 
kilio sabe in ee 
HERMINI S os, in Ancient Geography, a 
of mountains of Spain, in Lufitania, towards the age of 
“Maidobriga. 
HERMIONE, ae a town of the Argolide, at the 
_— whic is.extended to the fo uth- 
It was particu ted to 
> the temples of thefe pita ‘ 
‘rom Plutarch we leara.that it was 
bart 
eg in this place. 
Ceres and Proferpine, 
ferved as an wylum =F. 
