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EDVARDUS BEKN AKDUS de Men/hris 
iy Ponderibm -^[^r 'Qa%iM\u Oxonii e Theacro 
Seldonio A. D. 1685. 
THIS Compendious Treatife, infcrib'd to Po- 
cock the Venerable Sanduary of Orieatall Learn- 
ing, and alio annexed to his excellent Comment on the 
difficult Prophet //o/?^?, recommends to the diligence 
ofPofterity the Berries and Kernels of fruits, the uni- 
form Cells of Bees, and cheifly the Pendulum of the 
right famous Galileo.io conferve the true models of Com- 
mutative Juftice. Butfor the ages paft refers e^peclaUy 
to the ancientCoyns ftill kept in great plenty in the Cabi- 
nets of Chrifiian Princes: befides the rules of the Theaters ^ 
Amphitheaters y Temples and AquceduUs^ &c, of Europe 
and 'u^^ Jiiid Africa^ which have happily born the ftrokes 
of time and Barbarity, and have of late been exacStly 
meafuredby noble and skillfull Travellers: as the Pan- 
theon at l^me, Mineryas Temple in her own City, the 
iiLiriierous Antiquitys of Conjiantinople , the admira- 
ble Ruine ox Chilmenar, and the perpetuall Pyramids of 
Egypt. From thefe and feverall other Monuments is 
afferted the i^quality of the Englijh foot to that of 
the HebrevpSy Babylonians, Greeks, Chinejes, Cajiilians, 
and. thofe oi Lisbm and of Lyons, And farther that al-^ 
lowing, an intire EngUJh foot 1000 parts, the Parifiart 
will reach \o66^ the Catholic foot of S' "jonas Moors 
1089 ^he old Roman 970 ; that olVillalpandiis deriv'd 
from Vejpafans Co?igim, 98^5 the Rhinland foot of 
Snellius 1033 ; the Venetian 11 40 ; the Bononianof 
Au7j)ut 1 140 J to ami t the reft. Thus from the foot 
& mofl proper rile, paffing through the various meafures 
©f An tiquity , this Treati le at laft gives for one Degree, 
m the 3b pare of the Circuit of the whole Earth, 75^^ En- 
glijk 
