(779) 
haec corporis mo! em habeat, illud nonhabeat: Quoniam quoad altitir 
dinern (fecundum quam comparantur) Homogenea font, ucut alias He- 
terogenea. Dum vero iile, ad ^qualitatem aut jnsequalitatem requiri 
dtacet 9 ut juxta corporis mohm comfarentur tu mecum juxta judicabis 3 
credo, hoc minus Janum effe. (Sufficit utique ut juxta Longitudinem 3 La~ 
titudinem, Aititudinem, angulum Inclinations, Curvedinem, Duratio- 
nem, Numerum,, Vim, Pondus,Celeritatem, aut aliud quodcunque de- 
mum fuit quantitatis genus comparentur, quod utrique comparatorum 
commune fit; non minus quam juxta molem corporis,) Vides itaque 
quo tendunt ipfius nova frineipia , hucufque mndum tradita , quorum 
ooc unum eft. 
An Account of fome Books. 
1. OLAI BORRICHII-, M edict Regit > & in Acad, 
Hafn. Trofpbl. De ORTU & PROGRESSU 
C H EM IJE JDiffcrtatiO) in [mall 4.0 Hafnia? a 
1(568. 
T His Author makes it not hismainebufinefsin this Book 
to (hew the progrefs of the Performance sand Effects of 
Chymiftry, and to what pitchmen are arrived thereby., toe- 
vince its great ufefulntfs both in Phyfick and the Difcovery of 
Nature ( though he toucheth fomething of both 5 ) but he 
chiefly informes the Curious of its firft Original 3 and Progrefs 
from place to place 0 how it fprung up and flourished in 
v£gyft 5 paffed jhence, into Greece 5 Italy , Arabia , Chi- 
na , Spain ^ France , and all Europe. And becaufe Con- 
ringius and Urfinus do mainly interpofe in this Progrefs, he 
endeavours to remove the rubbs 5 which they caft in the 
way. 
Here and there he inferts fome Obfervations, which would 
be confiderable enough, if they might be relyed on. E. g. 
About Met allick Germinations $ where he relateth one of thero 3 
very admirable, feen by one San-Simon^to whom he giveth the 
Character of a man of great veracity., and of no credulity who 
living about 25 years agoe at Brujfels, was vifited by a ftranger, 
who having prefaced to him, what fome had told him of his 
curiofity and ingenuity., as well as of his incredulity concerning 
