'F^ LupusypSarls, Corals^ Marble, Alablajler, Emery : To whicll- 
be adds the various kinds of Coals -, as alfo Bitumens^ T^^ff^^ 
and jf^^i. And thirdly of the various kinds of AUam^ jhtrwl^ 
Niter, Sea-falt^ Fit-Jalt, But fourthly of the various Earths, of 
wh!ch he reckons up i^-* peculiar forts ("befides thofe thar 
ferve for HusbandryyVfhxch are not eafily numbred i ) and 
zmong^th^m^Read'lead, BlacJ^'/e ad and Fullers-earthy 
He concludes all with mentioning the feveral Meteors ap- 
pearingin England i and the Hot SprttJgs^ and Medical Waters i 
as alfo/ the Salitii Petrtfying^ and fome more unufual Springs : 
Item y Subterraneous Trees ^ Subterraneous Rivers^ Ebbuigs and 
Flowings of iVeUsy &c, 
m PL AC IT A P HILO Soph I CA Guarini.ThQ chk£ fubjUt 
of this Treatife is Natural Philo/ophy^ upon many important 
queftions whereof itenlargeth, as thofe of the Motion of the 
Coeleftial Bodies, of Light, of Meteors, and of the vital and 
animal fon<2ionSi leaving fometimes the common opinions^ 
and dlehghting in the defence of Paradoxes, 
G. That the material fubflantial Eorm, is nothing but 
mera potentia^ and fubfifts notby itfelf: by which means the 
Author judges, he can free himfelf from many great difficulties 
txyxxchrng GeneratioriTiwd Corruption, which do perplex the other 
Philofophers, 
% He holds Epicycles to be impoffible, and ExcentrickSiHOt fuf- 
ficient to explicate the motion of the Stars ^ but that all the 
irregularities of this motion may be falvedby the means of 
ctna'nv Spiral Lines ,* largely proving this Flypothe/is^ and par* 
ticutarly explicating the motion of each Planet. 
He denies the middle Region of the Air to be cold 3 and 
believes that cold is not neceflary to condenfe the vapours 
into Waten 
He admits not that vecclved AiiLiotD^yThatihe generation of 
one Body is the corruption df another i maintaining that there 
^vt Generations, to which no corruption ever preceded ; and 
that it may happen^ that one Animal without dying may be 
changed into another Animal. 
He alledges feveral reafons to evince, that the Air breathed 
in,enters not only into the whole capacity of the Cheft, but alfo 
into the lower belly. He 
