(575; 
To the Number of the Letter of the Al^hah, the word be- 
gins with, add 7. 
Example. Feare is the word for OStokr^ and F. the fixth Let- 
ter : V Vlierefore theSun enters into the 8. Signe, to wit Scorfio^ 
Qiixh^ I ^.oi October^ 
An Account of fome Books. 
L PETRI LAMBECII LIB. PRIMUS PRODROMI 
HlStORl^ LirERARIzy£, &c. — 
THe Author of this Book is now the Hifloriografher and Li^ 
brary-keefer to the Emperour, He publifhc this Volume 
fome few years agoeat Hamburg-, the place of his Birth, (whence 
an Exemplar was but lately fent to the Fubli[ber.) He was exci- 
ted to tiis Work by the complaint made by the lUuftrious Lord 
Verulamy ( Lib, 2. caf,/^, dcAngm. Scientkrum) of the want of a 
compleat of Learning^ihzt might give a [at is factory Ac- 
count of the Rife, ProgreUe, Trans-migrations, Interruptions ^ 
Declinations, and Reftaurations of all kind of Learning, Sciences^ 
Arts, and Inventions 5 together with the Occafionoi inventions 
through 4// Arts 5 the Ji/e/^^^^ of teaching, and the Af^/^;?^;' of im- 
proving and advancing them: Adding the various Se^fs, and the 
moft famous Controverfies among the Learned 5 the Encourage^ 
ments^ they received the chief Writings-, they compofed ^ their 
Schooles^ AcademieSi Societies ^ Colledges^ Succ&[sions^ Ordirs^ and 
whatever belongs to the State of Learning. 
This Grand Defideratum our Author undertakes to fupply the 
World with 5 and in order thereunto hath given us the Firjl 
Bookoi the Prodromus of this Hiftory, and with it the Four fir/l 
chapters of the Se/;ond Book, together with an Affcndix-, contain- 
ing a Summary of the Chief Ferfens and Things he intends more 
fully and accurately to treat of in the remaining 32. Chapters^ 
defigned for the fame jfirW Book : Towhich hefubjoyns two 
Tables of FmverfallChrortography/m the firft whereof he exhibits 
the fucceffion of all Ages from the Creation of the World to 
the Beginning of the Common Chri[lian Account 5 in the other ^ a 
Continuation of them from the Beginning of the faid Account 
unto this prefent Age> In ivhichT^^/l?/ he gives a generail ideaoi 
the Connexion of all AgeS;> as they are computed in refpe^l of the 
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