of Things to Numbers and Geometrical Figures. Thus Plato in his Timat» 
makes nothing vifible but Fire, nothing tangible buc Earth, between thefe 
two fojr their own Union are placed Air and Water. The Solid Bodjies he fup- 
pofeth nude up of Triangles j Fire he makes of Pyramids, confining of four 
Triangles j the Earth of Cubes, confuting of fix Squares, and each Square of 
four Triangles j *he Air of C&oterircn/, each (idc divided into fix Scalenes; 
then the Water of Icofaedrons, conf fling of Twenty Triangles* each made up 
of Scalenes. To thefe he adds a Soul, confifiing of Numbers and Proportions. 
The befi Interpretations yet. extant concerning it do not make Senfe or Reafoa 
of it, and a? befi the Author thinks it but a Lufws Ingmi. Further, he makes 
God and!Mar:er to be the two foil PriccipIes,to which he adds a third of Idea's.' 
But Plato's Excellency was not for Phyficks, but for Morals and Theology. 
Diver? Writings of the PUtonift* are our, and feme loft * butihefe hepaffes 
by, tince we have the Works of Plato himfelf. And now comes to the Dregs 
of Philofophy amosgfl the Epicureans and Peripatetkks. From Viators time 
to the p dent Ag& he finds nothing of Philofophy, nothing of Difcovery, no- 
thing but a Chattering and fruitlefs Methods of Wrangling. Concerning the 
Origination of things, there h nothing found to be met with in Ariftotle or his 
Schools. They would make the. World Eternal, both for Matter and 'Form 5 
Men alfo, and all things eife to be fo too. Befides, he docs not agree with 
his own Principles, defpofmg the four Elements one above the other, but (hews 
not how the Earth feems to be is fome parts higher than the Water. Then 
for the Heavens he makes Adamantine Orbs, and the Stars like Golden-headed 
Nails faftned to them : Thefe Orbs involved he makes to move round the 
Earth in 24 hours, that is every day. To this he introduces a contrary Mo- 
no.' (or each Planetary Orb from Well to Eaft ; the Matter of thefe he makes 
incorruptible, but below the Orb of the Moon he puts Fire Elementary, with- 
out Light or Hear. In the middle Region of the Air he puts the Milky Way 
and Comets. For the explicating of all other things on the Earth, he intro- 
duces Susanna! Forms, and Specifick Qualities, as infigoificant as the Vythtt- 
$ork\ Numbers and Harmonies. Which being fo, he wonders why it has been 
fo Jong approved of by the Chriftian VVorld. Then the Author giving a fhorc 
Cara'ogue of his Errors, and bids adieu to him,as to a bad Aftrosoihgr,* worfe 
TheoSoge, and the worft of all Phyfiologers. His Catalogue is this : 1. That 
the World is Ererna! and Incorruptible. 2. The Heavens folid, and moved by 
contrary Motions. 3. The Matter of the Heavens Divide and Immutable. 
4. The Stars to be denfer parts of their Orbs, and the Planets to filing by their 
own Light. 5. Light neither a Body nor a Motion. 6. Elementary Fire un- 
der the Moon. 7. TheGskxi and Comets, Meteors. 8. The Earth immo- 
vable, in the Centre of the World, 9. Up and down to be founded in Nature 
im mutably, 10. The Forms of Animate things fubftantial. 11, SenfmoB to 
be t>?ade by Intentional Species. 12. Rarefaction and Contraction ro beYnade 
by the increafe and decreafe of Exrenficn in Matter. 13. Providence not to 
clefcend below the .Moon. -14, The, Soul to be wTZhix&<*<> an(J of doubtful 
Immortality. Next he vifitsMpkuiMy illiterate, yet of no Vulgar Wit j he 
accommodated ail things to his Senfes, ~<nd fo his Notions were for the moft 
part e bfurd a d vulgar. He corrupted only the Do&rines of Dimwit m and 
om. Upon the whole, the Author thinks his Do&rines not worth con- 
fide: lug, but refers the Reader to Oaffendus, He concludes this Enquiry with 
giving the Names of feveral that have written of the Opinions of thefe Grecian 
.Philofophers, and of fome thar have written their dmffw) or Secret Do- 
Mini flrines* 
