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monument I unde omnem bujus Invent! rationcn^i haurire licet AftropM- 
lis. Ampkxus eandem Reverendifs. Setk Wardns , primum oftendic, 
paria fa cere cum ]inea ^irquabilis mocus circa akerum Bilipfeos umbilicum 
gyrata; deindc & Cilculidiredi methodo ornavitea, quam paulo ante 
recicavinfius : Icaut nilampLusdefidcrari pofsec , quam xitVrama felici- 
bus cupels annoerer. Cujusqaidem nomine fufcipere aufus fuit liluftrifs. 
Com^s P agan;4s ^ edito, hknnio pofi^ ejufdemfere cenoris Scripto , adeo 
veram effe Hypothefin , ut deprehenfani circa O^antes difcrepantiam , 
Aftronomorum infcitia? tributam mallet. Ac ( 1. BaHiddm , audiendam 
potiusipfam Aftronomiam ratus , Obfervatorum ore ioquentem , fecun- 
dis curls , adhibita prioribus Inventis liraitatione quadam, difcrepantiam 
illam exterminavit. Unde porro intelligitur , Hypothefinillam, cui CL 
Cajfinus inveftigationem x^pogeorum & Excentricicatum fuperftruii: , tan- 
tundem fere deficere a vero,quancum QVBullmldl liraicatio po'Iet^acque ab 
illo ,defedu pullulareeum quern fupra notavimus,Calculi a Ccelo dilTenfuro, 
Tantiim vero abeft , ut de Eximii Viri fnventione vcl minimum deliba- 
tum velim , ut quicquid hujuslucubratiunculx nonhaufiexReverendiff. 
WardQ , vel Herigono, id omnelpfilibentiffime acceptumrcferam, qui an- 
fam nobis prarbuit h^ec altius confiderandi. Nccdubitamus, quin omnia 
ifta muko uberius ac luculenrius in promiflb TraB^tu expofita propediera 
reperturi fimus , cujus Edicionem maturamjproeoqno flagramus diviniili- 
mae Sciential amore, perquam avide exfpedamus. 
An Account of Three Books. 
I. Efperienzefrt^om 4//^ Generatione Degl* Infetii , p^^tf Frandfco Redi , AcAi€' 
mic9 ddUCrufca. InVheniS) A. 166H. in 40. 
THe Learned and Ingenious Author of this Book, lately come to the Pu-blifiiers 
hands, though not yet f which is m uch d if! iked by the curious) into our Stationers 
Shops , doth with much induftry wadertake therein to evincej that there 1$ no fuch thing as 
Equivocal Generation, but that every Animal is generated by th« feed of another Animal<} 
(its parent,) or, at Ieaft,from fome Living and un-corrupted Plant, as out of Oak-Apples» 
and feveral Protuberances and Excrefcencies of Vegetables. 
FiVji thea , in the aflerting of the Univer[Mmd true Generation of Infers by apecy- 
Harand paternal Seed, the Author pofitively affirms , that he could never find , by alhhc 
Experiments and Obfervationsj he ever made (of which he rclateth a grc-at number , by 
fiimfelf made upon all forts of AhimalsJ that ever any Infeds were bred from fkUti , or 
Fife , or -putrlfH Plants, or any other Bodies » bur fuch, as Flies had accefs unto , and 
fcatter'd their feed upon 5 he having taken extraordinary care and pains to obferve , thae 
alwayes on the Fleili, before it did verminate , there fate Flies of the felf fame kind with 
thofe > that were afterwards produc'd thence | and again, that no Worms would ever, 
come from any FIe^fa in Veifeis well covered , and defended from the accefs of Flies 5 fo 
that to him there is no generation of Inlets from any dead Animals, but fuch as have bscn 
fiy-blown. 
And leaft it fhoyld be objeded, that the reafon» why in veflels exa^ly dos'd , no In- 
fcd breeds , is the' want of Air , neceffary to all Generation , He hath carefully covered 
feyeral ve0el$ with very fine Naples- vaile , for the Air to enter 2 though Flyes could 
not > but that no worms at all were bred there , notwithftanding that many Flyes fwat- 
med abaut thens , invited by the fmel of the Flefh inclofed. therein. 
Secondly, to make out the other part of his Pofition. vi^. That thofc Animals tliat 
are not bredbyths f€«d ©f othq Animjisj a^e produced f|om fome Hire Plant r or Its 
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