(-I080 
fa not ^o^uced j but only made fenfible , from an accldentsT check , to a petfon ^ ihtsi 
(hail have been put in ii afleep , when it was at reit j but awaktns , after it wss 
made to fwim down a ilill River > who will tinnk hfmfelf un-moved , till die 
Bjat meet wich fomeftop j whereby for the time its courfe will either be hindred , 
or difturbed > and he madeienfible of his being in motion. " 
He alleges divers other Observations, made of Rivers? fufpendtd 'Btlls j and 
Church- Lamp'^^ which were all obferved ly himfelf and many others to have like- 
wife tlie faid Igteral and vib aclng motion. Whereupon he admonilliech hii Readers,, 
that th:yv/6uld , on the like oc a'fionsj take very particular notice of ali'-'thc feveial 
motions in Earthquakes > ^nd then confider with themitlves ? wl etherA'om fuch Obfer- 
vations ) univerCally made , importing , that the Earth in' Earth-quskes is vibrated to- 
wards the Haft, and that that Vibration canpot proceed from its fuccuilation , (which 
is onely able to caufe a perpendicular motion in the trembling Earth, ) it niay be 
validly inferred » that ihe Earth hath a Diurml' FrogrefTive Motion from Weil to 
Ea{V. 
IJI. ^UJES7:T.0 triplex Ve AM NO mEM^'E ^ D lE 
CHRlSff HAtl, BAPt I S AT I & MOKl'UI. Juth- 
K. P. Michaele Senel'challo e S.^* Leodii y 1670, in 40» 
THis Author undertaketh ro prove in this Chronological Treatife not only the 
■Year and Month , but alio the Day and Hoiu'of the Nativity of-Chiifl 3 and 
oi' h'isEaptifme Bnd Death. 'In the doing of which he maketh diligent refearch' of all 
'Writers of Chror ology in general 5 and then examins particularly the Variety of their 
Opinion^ .Concerning the Subjed under Cdnfiueration j difcoveiing much \nduftry and 
"Learning in all thefe'lnquiries, 
IV. HER M JH JKCl GHUBE , M. D Commsntarim de Modo S I M- 
FLICIUM MEDICAMEl^TORUM B JCU LTAXE S cog- 
HK^cendi, Hafnis & Francofurti , 16651. in 80. 
TO this Trenifs is prefixed an Epiille of Do dor Thomas -Bmholin conUrnlng. 
this very Book and Avgument J by which it appeareth, that this Author is eoc 
contented with Ariuotlc lo enquire , Why bitter or flrong-fenied Medica- 
ments and Plants do moftly purge , and fragrant ones provoke to urine ,5 nor with G^- 
hn » to find out their Vertuesby the Colour , Smell and Talle 5 but proceeds to par- 
ticular Experiments > and examines alfo 3 Hovv^ and upon what account theVertuesof 
.Plants are difcoverable by the Smeil 'and TaSe j defcending to the confideratlon of the 
fsveral Particles, Figures? and Fores ? upon, which the diverir.y of thofe Senfations de- 
pends ; and fuper-adding the Experiments of fober Cljj'wzilfj" j and the Principles of the 
^iiftf^^w Philofophv, to thofe of y^rijiOf/^ and G<2/c;? 
Mean while the Learned Eartholin commends very much the knowledge and ufeof 
Emple Native Medicins J efpecialiy prepared o{ Dome fit qm Plants, and dircds to- 
fuch at home , as may perform the part of Exoticiis. Where he fpccifieth the ufe of 
■European Doc^i inftead 6i Rhubdrb ; c{ Elder inftead cf Sena ^ c{ Ctimphry .h[[Qad 
of 'Meehvacan ; of Iris inftead of ^afap , &c. For Purgatives he finds st home Green 
Bdrley -, ths Powder of ■S't. J(9b«*s PTo/^ , &C. He taketh our Jf^^4//^,Rfj to h^'^Succe- 
dan'eum to Nutmegs ; t-ie Root of Angelica ib CofXus j Scordium or Penny-Royal to the 
Vi^amneQi Crete % theSApvS^ Flrr, to Opobal [mum j ihQ Geranium Mofehnzum^ or 
[s\'^tx {emQd i- funeS'Bill) w ihc ln(ikn jidiJs\3 &c. 
Having done t-ds > he maketh a Rtflcxion on the Iridicstions taken from Plants hf 
their l atte , and oblerveth, , that though much may be thence collc<fted yet Experience 
is the-Ghief Mafter of all : wfeerc he diidains- not to rccoj-iincnd even to great Fhy- 
