and EtUopic ; and then in the European^ efpecially the 
Gree\y theold Gallic ^nd Br it tannic. To which he 
adds a deduction, importing, that the Pagan Theology, 
Phyfickj Politicks, Poefie, Hiftory, Rhetoric, are trada- 
ced from Sacred Names, Perfons , Rites and Records 5 
and fliewing withal, How the Jcwifh Traditions came to 
be corrupted and miftaken by Pagan/, 
In the Second pan he maketh it his bufinefs to evince, 
that Ph/lofophy alfo hath its Original from the Jemi/b Church; 
beginning to (hew this of tht Barbaric Philofcphy, under 
which he comprehends the Efyptian^ Phenician^ Chaldea?iy 
Terjianjndian, Ethiopic^ Scythian^ and Britannic znd thence 
proceeding to the Grecian, and chiefly to the Ionic , and 
Italic or Pythagorean-^ where he (hews great reading and 
learning whil'ft he deduceth this doitrine of Judaic Ori-' 
gin from the Teftimooies of Heathen ^ Jewifli , and Chri- 
fl:ian,both Ancient and Modern, Authors 5 pafling through 
all the particular SeUs of Philofophers with great lolici* 
tude andinduftryjandpromifingat the end of this Work, 
that he is willing to undertake another Treatife^ to (hew 
both the Mifchief of Vain , and the Vfefulnefs of Sound 
Philofophy to Chriftian Religion , if this Hiftorical Ac- 
' compt, delivered in thefe two Parts, ( and mainly defigned 
in Order thereunto ) find any fuch reception , as may 
give encouragement to fuch Labours* 
IL loh. Joachimi Becheri Spirenfis Med. Doft. EXPE- 
J^IMENTVM CMTMICVM T^OVVM, quo 
Artificialis & Inftamtanea Metallorum Generatio Sc Tranf- 
mutatio ad oculum demonftratur. Francofurti, A* 1671. 
In 8^* 
This Tradl was written by the Authour as a Supple^ 
ment to his Phyjlca Subterranean likewife printed at Fran^* 
ford.^ about two years lince, though yet but in part, 
there being hitherto extant only the firft Book of the 
two, of which it is to confifl: : which Firfl part ( to give 
fome accomptof it on this occafion^l undertaketh toex. 
plain both the abftrufe Generation of Subterraneous 
things, and the admirable Fabric of the Super-terraneous 
and Subterraneous complex Globe of Earth, Air and 
Water 
