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IV- An Account of a BOOK, 
An Account of Dr. Burnet*/ Boo\ , Entitn- 
led, ARCHEOLOGY Philofophicae, 
five Do&rina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus. 
Libri duo. Londini, Typis R. N. Impenfis 
Gualteri Kettilby ad Infigne Capitis Epifcopi 
in Ccemeterio Paulino. 1692. 
IN this Treatife he endeavours to difcover what were 
the Sentiments of the Ancients concerning the Ori- 
gin or beginnings of this vifible World , of which he 
conceives Men in all Ages have had a true, if not a Di- 
vine Knowledge, as well as of a Divine Power, and of the 
intermediate Order, Viciffitudes and Ends of all things. 
And that Pythagoras was not the Inventor of the Mun- 
dan Syftem afcribed to him, but the Conveyer only of 
it from the Orientals, dvroppy^a, to the Grecian Schools, 
where yet it received lejffer Improvement as to par- 
ticular Explications, then ithast>y the Modern Inquifiti- 
ons, (as he conceives) though yet he grants that our 
Hiftories of their Opinions are very imperfed:, yet as 
the Magnificence of a Stru&ure may be judged of by 
its Ruines, fo in general we may have fome Idea of their 
Do&rines by the Fragments of them which are yet to 
be found in the Grecian Writers, as well Hiftorical as Fa- 
bulous, or Muthical and Poetical. By all which he endea- 
vours to prove, that moft of the Ancients held very 
much 
