ifjgt of Men 5 the Violence of Wind dnd the Motions ofm 
Seas 2, the diverfities of Plants^ and the virtues of Roots • Afjd 
all fuch things, as are either Secret or more Manifejl ? For this 
New Philolbphy ire were difcip lined by thejaudahle Exam* 
pies of the mojl Ancient Sages of the Eaft» And me had the 
fame or the lil^e Guides (tto lefs than the fame Old Authority) 
to licence our addition to the Mathematicks and Mechanicks, 
for Military^ Civil^ or Naval Architecture ^ from the fotwdvfi 
Foundations of Holy Cities^ Temples , Thrones of Wifdome^ 
Palaces of Glory ^ and Monumental Pillar Sy to the curious 
Sculptures and other infpired WorkmanJIoip of Aholiab^^^ 
Bezalcel/ And if Modern diligence hath dived fo deep^ m 
to find more fatisfaUion in Atoms, than in the three contro- 
verted Principles, n?/// Diogenes 1.2Ltxt\us^ or any other Hi- 
jiorian^ or Antiquary, allow thefe Critic^ fo call the Atomica! 
the New Philofophy ? Or have our Modern Atomifls done 
amifs in purging the Old Atoms of Gtttc^from the He at h e- 
mffj Errors of G reece ^ 
The next shift is^ to accufc us ofneglc&ing and defpjfing all 
Antiquities. Tet perhaps they havefeen the contrary in the 
Preface to thefecond Vo\wmQrf our Tranfaftions, rvherewe 
fay; Tis our Main bufinefs, as well to retrive all valuable 
AntiquitieSjas to fupply frefhdifcoveries $ to recover good 
Old helps, as to devife "H^w^And hoTV carefully have we{aU 
a^of^g) taken notice of the endeavours of the Curious^ to revive 
Old Arts ^ and to extricate conftder able Antiquities ? This we 
h ive done with great reJpeSs and jincere veneration. And 
for this caufe^in our former Volumes n^e have celebrated Lam- 
becius, for his noble undertaking to commemorate the chief 
Authors and In/pr overs of a 'lfor?ner Arts and Sciences ; And 
S2i\mz{\m^forthe care he hath taken to find out the Old Medi- 
cable Plants^ and for the right he hath done PYmy . where he 
defirve-d it : Andperhaps jomewhat more might be done j or 
Fliny, if by our Conquefi:s, wecoi^ld enter as deeply, atid cmi^ 
lize the Inlands ^Africa and Alia, as^ by our late Navjgati- 
ons and Commerce^ we have done upon their Coafts : This we 
are invited to believe by the late Adventures of Majier T, S, 
when as a slave he yras only employed in a Military Expcditi- 
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