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we have from the Chaldeans^ contradicts the Jeivi/h: 
That thQ Chaldean Afirology was downright Koavery • 
And that for other things, had they been very confide- 
rable, there would have been more Memorials of them 
preferved. ThQ Arabian Lt^xmxsg is, according to him, 
all in a manner owing to the Greeks, fo that its Anti- 
quity or Extent cannoc here be alledged. (Cfjap. ii.) 
He beheves the Natural Knowledge to be very 
inconfKJerabie, and their Speculative Skill in Medicine 
entirely Phantaftical: To prove which he produces a 
long Citation out of an Old Chinefe Book, called, Ni^y* 
Kim, Printed by Cleyer in his Specimm of Ckineje Phy- 
fick. {Chap, 12.) 
He divides ihe Grecian Learning into Four Parts ; La- 
gkk, Metaphyjicks, Mathematicks^mi Phyficks, Log^ick,^ 
as it is the Art of Dlfputation and Method, is in his O- 
pinion, to be aftribed to the Ancients as it is Art 
of hiventioo it is mere owing to the Moderns, fince rhe 
Methods of Invention which the Ancients made ufe or, 
feenrfc to be entirely loft. Here he commends DesCartes's 
'Meditations^ Tfchirnhaus's Medicitia Mentis^ and Mr. Lock's 
EJfay of Humane Vnder [I anding, In Metaphyjuks aQ thinks 
the Writings of Des Cartes and his Followers may be 
fet againft all that the Platonifls fay upon thole Subjefts, 
though they of all the Ancients Difcourfe tliemofi upon 
Spirits and Incorporeal Subftaoces. ( Chap, 1 3 . ) 
When he fpeaks of Ancient and Modern Mathematicks, 
he produces a Diicourfe of that Excellent Geometer, 
Mr. john Craig, who endeavours to prove that Modern 
Geometry is of infinitely larger extent than the Anci- 
ent; and that it has been enlarged by Methods in a 
I good meafure unknown to, or at leaft, not compara* 
tively cultivated by the Ancients, which are, Algebra 
^and the Method of Indivifibles ; the particular Advan- 
tages of the former of which in improving Ahthmetick 
and Geometry he does at large infill upon, {Chap. i^.) 
Sf After. 
