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Difquifitio de Ma;jia divinatrke isr operatrice (sfc. 
AuSiore Francifco Moncasio 4." Francofurti (isr Lip- 
, (1261683. 
IN the Xjeneral handling Magick.^ he gives 
the feveral divifions Authors have made uleof, 
different according to the divers conceptions they 
had of its parts. He makes it firft, either Humane^ 
or Diabolicalwxth their refjpeftive Species. Secon- 
dly, Natural^ ov Tranfnatural^undcv which laft he 
comprehends the Tranfmutation of met a lis *y under 
Natural come z\\ the furprizing eftefts of Art^ fuch 
as Artificial fires ^ malleable glajfe^ incomhuflibk 
linnen^ cures of Difeafes by magnetifm or Tranfplan- 
tat ion ^Strange effefts mChymiJiry^ and Mathematicks 
&c. 
After this general account, follow's a very parti- 
cular enumeration of its fpecies to the number of 
about Sixty nine, alphabeticallly placed, together 
with the Author sxh^t treat of them ; out of all which 
the Author frnglcs AleSirjiomancj/ for the lubjeftof 
this book. 
He thinks that the ftrange antipathy C if true j 
between a cock and Z/W may be accounted for, ei- 
ther from the difproportion of the found to the 
Lions tzr^ as the grating of knives upon ftone is un- 
pleafant to us ; or as the noife of bells^or finging, fets 
dogs zn howling : or becaufe in Africa there are no 
