( 1P4 J 
The Fi f th and kft Book is of Mineral Salts s as Sak-pme , 
fimol^ and Jkm. He defcribqs Salt-peter to be a Stone- SaJf^ 
which hath in it felf a fallen fire i cells you of whac earths it is 
beft made 5 how thofe Earths and tht Lees made of them are 
to be proved^ with the Way ofboyling the iS^/f-P^^^^^and 
parifyifig it when boyled. And in thelaft Chapter^hede^ 
fcnbes the Kp^ft^^^ trying Flints for l^itrioL dtid the j4lum- 
Earth or sh^er tor Alum ; which Earth is neither to be roajled 
nor yet tobe^i>y/^iR.aw, but muft belaid in an heap rog'^ther, 
to be weathered and warmed init felf^thatit may fall afunder 
and break ouc^and then you may make i^^j- of it. Befides thi^ 
the whole work is every where illultrated with sculptures both 
of the inftruments and operations * 
The Tranflator ^^.^ohnPettm ^ hdS zdded ^ DiBionary oi 
X the M^^^/Z^'^'y^words, which he nW^i^it Second part* and has 
divided the Tra£k it felf into Chapters and Sedlions^ and 
pointed it>(all whichi fhe tells us)w^ere wanting in the Origi* 
ml)hz.vid hath promifed likewife the Contents both of thofe 
Chaptersj and Sedions^ as alfo of the Sculptures. 
He farther promifes to pablifli Jgricola in Ln^tfh^ within the 
coiiipafs of a Year, it being already fully Tranllated. 
Benjamini a Brookhuyfen Oecommia .Animalis ^c^ in 4° 1685. 
THe Author o£ this Book, being itiGll: add iiSled to the Principles 
of Des' Cartes y propofech (by a great variety of difcourfes) fever«l 
ways and declarations, what the true notion of a Sfl/it and a Body may 
be i and how the Soul and Body^ as two d'jferent SubftanCes^ miy be 
joyned togethery fo as to perform ail the nnlrndfunEllopis^ thatcom- 
moniy are obferved as well in Man,as in all other forts of Beafts, and liv- 
ing Creatures. To this purpofe he divideth his Book into 1 2 1 Ayu^ 
^les\ adding to every one> (where he is inquiring the- A^<?^i^».of the 
SohI) a large difceurfe, to make us better underftand what he bath faid 
and afferced in the Articles, So from the fiiR to the 12 Article, he 
explaineth by what way or means onerauft begin to form Thtiofophtcal 
conceits : A^, that no Prmclfks of any Science muft be taken for grmed; 
and fhaf the moft fmfle mtions ihdit can be found out, muft be the only 
rule of an lyitelknnalfrogrejfion» And whereas true Philofophy requir- 
cth a conformity of the objc*5\s with reafon, fo 2: right judgement abouc 
any thing muft. agrecwith theperceptionofir: And hence all pre- 
;udices, cuftoms, opinions of feveral Se6i:s,. the veneration towards An- 
tiquity 
