****** that even thofe,^thata« commonly caUedOff*//, may be ex. 
pjicated by Motion Figure Pores and . Texture :. where he dll- 
f "^-/'o^^r^l^^Ii^--'''^ ^^^"y. Tafte, Smeil, 
Sound, Light, Colour, 0-^. ^ > 
<- ^ tbe Hiftory of the V»!ve.fi,,nd particu- 
krly of the H*<,^.«/. and the Stars, PJanets.Comets j together with 
his Opinion concerning their Influences upon theBodics here below 
/>/ of the Sublunary World the Earth. Water; Fire\and Air. About 
the Earth he examins its Pofition and Sufpenfion in the Air and its 
Magnetical vertue. Of the fr^f^r, he confiders its proprieties the 
Origin of Rivers and Fountains, and the Caufe of the FJux and Re- 
flux of the Sea. . Of the Pii-e, he difcourfeth of its various Effeds 
both above and under gjf^ound h Concluding this part with the Con. 
in Natural and Arn« 
fiaai things^. ' 
In th^ fifth, he examinsJ'^#//,Mettals,Fluors,Salts, Stones deli- 
YeriHghis ^pinion about their origine, and difcourfing amply of the 
M^gm in particular, affigning with Des-Canes the caufe of the va« 
rious fhmomnaxhtx.^ofto be the paffage of thzM4terUfirma throup^h 
the pores, thereof. 
Ih the fixtK he explains the do&rine of ^iff^-(??-x, Vapors j Exhala- 
tipns,Wind$,R.ain,Hail,Snow,Devv,Thunder,Lightning theRairil 
bow, &c.. ' • 
^ U i\\tfeventh, he treateth of Pte^z, th^ir variety^ p^rts- quali^. 
ties and vcrtueg, vegetation, nutrition^ decay, c^^^^ * ^ \ 
In the eighth ^ht giveth an account of Animals^ of fpontaneous and 
feminal generation, of the caufe of Monfters., aiid of the different 
times obfcrvcd in Animals for their bringing forth i To which he 
adds the various Affe^Sions of them, the Circulation of the Blood ^ 
Hunger and thirft. Hatred a^d Love, Sleep and Waking, Infirrai^ 
tiiBs and Dife^fes, ^f. . 
In ih% ninth and laft,he delivers the dodrine Of J/^^ in particulars^ 
adfcribing to him, exclufively to Brutes, Coghation, 2Lni aflerting^ 
ihatthough Man, like Other Animalf, makes ufe of the like Org^s^ns 
of Senfewith them, yet he doth notin that manner, as they do,per. 
ceiye Objcfts, in regard that Senfe in Man is CogitMion, which^ 'in 
hrs j'ttdgraeht, belongs not to Brutes. Whereupon he gives here 
anaccount of divers Experiments. abput tfl? Touch, Tait, S^ell^ 
Hearing and Seeing^ treating afterwards of Imagination and Me- 
mory, and explicating alfp the Caufcpf Dream^s a^ of the Pali|-' 
©i^s, Propc«fi9^» ^^^dAve^^^ ^ 
