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■produce nothing but Numbers, doc Things ; and that converting things all to 
Arithmetical Operations was in the Pythagoreans and Phtnifls a failure, not 
unlike that of the Ptripatetic^s.of turning all into Logical terms. l j htrtcid(s 
Pythagoras his Mafter, writ a Tntogonia. And Em?rd»des, one of his Scho- 
lars, aliened the Sun to be a Mafs of ^ire, and the S:ars to be fiery, and the 
Earth made of the four Elements, united by Lcve, acd feparartd bv Strife. 
'Tis uncertain whether Vythag^as wrote or no, but certain that VbiloljM y Ar- 
chytaS) aud Eudoxx* did. And 'tis (iu\ Plato bough: three Eooks cf YbiloUut, 
whence he took \\\^Timxws» Arcbytis is faid to have written many things, 
but all are loft but a Frag-..- nt about Marhematicks. Etdsxm a!fo, and Em- 
fedocles, but all art now left, The Writings alfo of A r iUtle concerning the 
four \ytbago Y 'r^ E ; gnenrs are loft, and fome others. So are the Writings of 
Ariftoxtnuu Htraclides, Ntanthts HirmippM, Synant'js Didyn.a, and E%dixm. 
Alfo Moderate Qaditanu, Alexander Volyhiftor, Apdrocidui, and others. 
In the Twelfth Chapter he enquires concerning the Opinions of the Eliatic^ 
Seel, and of the Stoickj. This Seft was Founded by Ztnophints in the times 
cf Anaximander, and confifted of a Mixture of various Nitioos and Opinions. 
The Do&rine he held was, that there were infinite Suns, and tcSnite Moons 
like ours, which he faid was habitable, but that they were all Ererna'. Par- 
menides held them to be formed gjk of Fire and Earth, and Men out of Clay, 
They agreed much with the Ionic ^ Seel. LtuclffM and Dtmocritia were cf 
this Seft, who introduced Atoms. Leucippus acknowledged the Motion 6f the 
Earth cn its Axis, and that when the fluid Mafs fetled into a Globe, it was 
covered by a dry Skin, which growing thicker, formed the habitable Earth : 
He fuppofes the Axis alio at firft right, but altered afterward ; both which are 
confonant to the Author's Thecry. Democrit:^ was an Auditor of Leucippv % 
and had travelled Verfia, Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and India, to improve his 
Knowledge among the Learned of thofe Countries, and has written many 
Books, though all loft. 'Tis faid he affirmed the Moon to be a fired Body, 
but with Mountains, Hills, and Vales ; but the Author fuppofes only fiery Moun- 
tains, fuch as are on the Earth. Callimachiis wrote of his Opinions. The 
Opinion of the Stoic^s is Famous for the Future Conflagration of the World. 
But little is to be found concerning the Production of it, yet they alferted 
God to be the Author of it } but to this they joyn Matter mixt and of it felf 
without Motion. This was peridiable by the Conflagration, but the Divine 
Principle Eternal,as they eftcemed aifo the Matter it felf, though the Form pe- 
riled . So the unformed World they made Eternal, but the formed to have 
both beginning and end. They held moreover, of formed Bodies, the Fire to 
be firft, and out of that to be made the other Elements, which again were 
Tefolvable into ir. Concerning the Mundane Periods and the Fate of the Sroic^s 9 
little need be faid in this Difcourfe, it being well known. Many Books have 
been written by and concerning them, but all loft ; yet 'tis faid there is one 
Ancient Book or Piece of ApMonm TyrUs vet exftant in fome Library, but 
not publiftied, concerning the Opinion and Works of Zm. 
In the Thirteenth Chapter he enquires amcrjg the Vlatonlc^s, AriftottUats , 
*nd Epicureans. Firft, he finds the ?Utsnic\s like the Pythagoreans, to be 
mod taken up in high Speculations of Abftraft Notions, and in afiSgning Caufcs 
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