11. Enchiridion MET A PHrSlCVMJvede J{EBVS 7iV- 
C0I{P01{EIS DiJJertatioy per M. Caatabngiealcm* 
Londioi 1671* in 4*^, 
T Hough thisTreatife at thefirft afped may feem not 
to be futable to make an Ingredient of thefc TraBs^ 
t^rhofe defign and biifiaefs it is to give an account of what is 
tranfa£ting among Learned and Ingenious Men in Phyfieai, 
Mathematical and Mechanical matters • yet^after it (hall have 
been made to appear^how great a number of Corporeal Phas* 
nomena of the world and how many Phyjical Experiments 
are made u(e of and examined in this Book, in order to the 
attainment of the End propofed by the Author^it will then, 
'tis prefumedjbe thought proper enough to be taken notice 
of in thefe Papers; it being fo complicate with what 
Philofophers look upon as the very Principles of the 
Effefts of l<iatuve^Matter and Amotion. 
The Learned Author then, worthily defigning in this 
Fir ft part to evince \ht Exiflence Incorporeal Beings, and 
to explain the N4»^ttre of them, thinks fit, for thecorapaf- 
fing of that defign, toconfider and examine divers of the 
chiti Phenomena oi the World, which have been by De[s 
Ctjrf^/ and other noted Philofophers refcr*d ro meer A/f- 
ri^awV^/Caufes ; and upon examination to reprefent, that 
ibey are in vain and falfely adfcribed to fuch Principles, 
and that confequently Immaterial^Q wgs muft needs be ac- 
knowledged to be the Caufes of them. Which how fucceff- 
fully it is by him perform'd, we muft leave to Perfpicacious 
and Candid Readers to Judge: Our part only being to 
deliver here iome of the principal Heads of this Treatife, 
and thereby to invite Judicious men to weigh the whole 
matter. 
Paffingby therefore that part of this DifTertatior^which 
is meerly Metaphyfical^we fhall obierve, Firft, that our Au- 
thor chargeth the faraous Dej-Cartes to have delivered a 
precarious and a very unphilofdphical definition of M otton^ 
fuch 
