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Parts of all thefe Plants and their life, the manner, how they are produced, 
and nouriihed and their different Qualities. He difcourfcs alfo of Bread, 
Wine,Oyie,and the other Mixtures, that are tnadeof Plants. 
In the Fifth Boek^, he treats of the Generation ef Animals^ where he 
delivers many curious raatters, explicating in a very eafie and f«miliarway 
that Argument, which hath always been lookc upon , as one of the obfcureft 
in Natural Philofophy, 
The Second Treatife confifts of 7 .Books ; wherein the Author confiders, 
what appertains to He difcourfes^ry?,of Digeftion, of the Circu- 
lation of the Bloud,and ofthe life of the principal parts of the Humane Body, 
Next, he treats of the Senfes, External and Internal of all the Motions of 
the Body, both Natural and Voluntary, of the fenfitive Appetite, and the Paf. 
fions •, Thsnce he proceeds to the Temperaments, Habits, Inftind, Sleep, 
Sicknefs, &c, Laftly^ palling to the Rational So^Lhe endeavours tode- 
monftrate the Iraroortaliiy thereof, and to explain alfo the Manner, how it 
worketh upon the Body, and is united with the Body where he omits not 
to reafon of all the Powers of the Soul ,ol Liberty, and of the Operations of 
the Underftanding and Will. 
In general^ the Author makes it his ftudy, for the expli^cating of the 
mod perplext Dif!iculties,to fhew,that JSlature works not but by very fimple 
and eafie wayes, 
* ]n /?rfmV»/^r he. inrerfperfes feveral curious remark?. E.g. He teachelj 
how to make Perf e^lves, that niagnifie Objeds, without Glafs telling ps, 
that whenanObjed: islook'c upon through a fmall hole, it appears n^uch 
greater than it is and that therefore, if inftead of Gblfes one did caft before 
oneS-eyes two F/^f^; having little holes in them, it would furnilh us with 
a new kind of Per fpectives, more commodious than thofe of Glaffes, which 
fpoil the Sight by reafon of the refraiftion of the Raye5,caufed thereby. A ^ain^ 
He renders the caufe of that common, but furprifing, effed: of Painters, 
drawing certain Pourtraidures, which feem to look diredly upon all their 
Beholders, on what fide loevcr they place themfelves : P^iiiel* That in thofe 
Pidures, the Nofe is a little turned to one fide, and the eyes to the other. 
Whence it comes, that fuch pidures.feem to look to the right fide, becaafe 
the Eyes are indeed turned chat.way- but they appear alfo to look to the left, 
becaufe the point of the Nofe is turned that way, and the TaJble, whereon 
the Pi(R:ure is drawn, being flat, the Looker on perceives not, that the Ey^fS 
are turned th'oLher way; which he would do, if the Eyes of the Pourtrait 
were convex - Whence it comes, that no Figure can be made emboffed, 
which looks every way. 
The art, which he teaches of making Parfley (hoot out of the ground in a 
few hours, is this. Infufe the feed of it in Vinegar; and havmgfown it 
in good ground caft on it a good quantity of the Afhes of Bean-Cods, and 
fprinkle it with Spirit of Wine, and then cover it with fomelinneh. He 
mentions alfo, that if you calcine Earth, and then water it well, it will 
produce 
