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good Aftronomers may judge) he pnffes on to difcourfe of Vegetables ; 
then of the Celeftial Bodies , and among them of Comets , which he fup- 
pofeth to be made up of the Mthereal Efflfivtaof the Luminaries , or the 
Confiuvia of the ^Ethereal matter ; as Aereal Meteors are made of 
Vapors. 
Further, he difcourfes of the Formation of Fifbesand Fowls^ then, of 
Senfation , Imagination , Ajppetice- BeaRs , Man, Human Body, 
Human Spirit, the Image of God in Man, and the Immortality of 
the Human Soul : where he reprefents Man as the Ccntrick Orbe of 
the whole World , making him the ^^y?r^f? thereof , and that one Na- 
ture , which all other Creatures do circumferentially refp^ ft , relating to 
liim one way or another , as fo many hnes ina Circle to the Center. 
In the Clofe , he obferves two thingjj : 
T. The Symmetrical and Uniform C^^r«)^r;?/^^j' of tfre wholeMafleof 
Matter, and of the feveral parts thereof , exadly adjufled according to 
the more or lefs Denfity of their Matter , and the more or lefs Adivity of 
their Qualities j viz., the Sufer-ather (:is he terms it) or the utmoft Cir- 
cumference of the World ; and within that , the JEther ^ and within this, 
the Air ^ and withiii them all , the T^rraqpieom Giohe and inmoft Center 
thereof 
2. The eafie Comprehenfion of the Age of the World , according to 
the Mofdical Chronology ; there being in that not above 1 50 Generations 
between Vs and Adary^ , in reg rd that that Sacred Wricingenumerkteth, 
from Adam to C^r?)? inclufively , no rtiore than ';^6 Generatrobs . andal- 
Jowing 4 Generations to every ( entury fincethe Na'civicy'6f .Ch'rift^' the 
-Total Will not exceed the number ab6ve-fpecified. ^' ' ^ '.- :^ 
IL FRANC. TR A VA^YWl, ^^erUfi^atlmlna 'ifeYa- 
Cils tempore ukimorum Terrae-Motuum , ac 'potijfrmum Ragufiani, 
- FHYS IC A D I S^SS-^ ISITIO , feU.GTRI T E-R. 
i / -RM D IV RN I I N D IC IV M. lugduni Batayc^iitT^ 
TBis F'mtHah pbilpfopBet rcqtiaints the f unots itl tfels j^opl 
fome Obfervarioiis , made by himfelf in two kte Earth-quakes, and 
by others alfo, in thelaft ihbut Ragpffa ^ whence he thinks an Argument 
may be drawn to confirm , among othtr proofs , the Dmrnal Motm of 
ih^ Earth. - ^ ^ . ^'--i ^ ■ ; 
His Obrerv'^ri6ns'are , that in thofe Earth-q'ualce^ liimfelf did Hnd , be- 
fid^ a/^^/^/^i;^^ pigrp6ndicu!ar motion , found by others , a concomitant 
Luttird one , from pvefi to Eajf ; which latter he conceives was not cau- 
fed byfthc former, (which he alfa endeavors to prdve) but only discovered 
.by ir ^juft as the progrcffive Motion of a Boat catri'ed with a ftili flrcam^ 
ty'^'i ^ " is 
