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Obfervations. Which was thought fit to add here, that 
nothing might be detrafted from Mr. Lifier for permitting 
his Notes in the lately mention'd Trad to be puWiftied as 
his own^which really they are. 
An Accompt of fome Books* 
h DE CORPORVM AFFECTIONIBVS cumMAmFESTlS 
turn OCCVLTlS^ Libri Dm : Sen ?romot£ per Expert^ 
mefjta Philofophi£ Specimen^ Auth. J. B. Du Hamel^ 
EcclejisBajocenfisCmcellarh^ Pa rifiisji 67 o./> 12 ^ 
^^"^He Learned Author of this Treatife having reprefen- 
X ted in the Preface^ that the Grecian Philofophy con- 
cerning Nature, hath been fb far from being able to grow 
up any thing confiderably, that by the more Generous and 
the more Intelligent men of this Age, it is efteem'd rather 
to have degenerated and decayed 3 giveth here a Specimen 
of Natural Philofophy improved and advanced by Obfc 
vations and Experiments 5 not only endeavouring to ex* 
plicate/rom the Principles of the Modern Ihilofophers, the 
Qualities and Powers ofBodies^but alfo giving an Accompt: 
of the more Rotable Experiments, made in this Age in di- 
vers places^asE^^/^W^/^r^^^^e,/^^/;', Germany^ &-c, lathe 
Performanceof which he treats. 
In his Firji Book^of theOfigtne and Nature of QLialities 
in General 5 then^ofHeat and Cold^ of Fluidity and Firm- 
nefiand other Taftile Qualities 3 ofTafts, Smells, Sounds^ 
Light^and Colours* In the Second^Oi Medicaments in Ge- 
neral 5 theUjofthe Vertue and life of Preparing, Alterative, 
Purgativejand Topical Medicines ; as alfo of Poyfonsand 
Antidotes, in the fame, he proceeds to confider Magne- 
tifmejEleiflricity, Gravity in general, and the Accelerated 
motion of Heavy Bodies Concluding the whole with the 
confideration of Libr^ted Liquors^ and the Weight of the 
Air* 
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