(572) 
cannot be pulVa afunder , but they mCt remove the neighbouring 
parts ot the Air from their place , and by doing fo fomewhat raife 
the im^s of the Air incumbent,th€y being every where preffed from 
theenvironipg Air, no orherwife than a Body innnerfed in water 
is on all fides conipreffed by water. Wherefore as ofren as a firm 
body , e. the branch of a cree,is bent, the convex parts thereof 
are fomewhat forced afunder ^bbit when that exterior force ccafcth, 
than every pare recovers its proper figure and fcite; and this, he 
faith, is mainly efFefied by the weight of the fubtiler Air, drc. 
In {he third Book he treats amply of ihefour Elements , com- 
monly fo called, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth: where occur many 
confidcrable Obfervations concerning Fire and Jir. The Fficu- 
rean no:ion of Fire is here explained, and the Cartejian likewife^ 
and thofe particulars difcuffed , that feem difficult in the later. 
There are alfo recited many ph^enemena of Flame, and the latent 
- fire in Lime^nd other Bodies ingenionfiy difcourfed of: More- 
over, M^iat is the nature and ufeof the Air, what the nature of the 
together with the many Experim!:nts abour the Spring 
of the Air, made in the Machim Bojliana^ in i>^/^;?iand elfe- 
where, ^c. 
In ihc fourth are explained the Principles of Chjmifiry, the mix- 
ture and diffolution of Bodies, Fermemation (irc^ This alfo is full 
of new Experiments and Obfervations , made here and in Fr^rjce, 
and other Countries. So that there being reprefented in this new 
Edition, as in an Epirome,moftof (hefiibjeGsand enquiries of Nar 
rural Philofophy, and they treated with much plainnefs and ele- 
gancy, it may be of great ufe to young Students in Philof phy to 
inftruft thefelves in ail thofe matters with brevity and delight. 
IV. Of EDUCJTlONy effeciaUy^f Toung Gentlemen, in two 
parts, the feco^d IfM^reffion with Additions ; Fritted at the thea- 
ter Oxon. 80. 
That eminently Learned and Famous Knight Sir Hef^ry Wottm^ 
did long fince, at the end of his FJements of Jrchite6ture,proii\\Te^ 
as devoted to the fervice of his Countrey 5 a Fhilofophical Survey 
of Education, which is indeed ( fays he) a Second Building or Re- 
pairing of Nature , and a kind of Moral ArchiteSiure. T\\\$ he 
promifed An. 1624 ; and he made many EfTays, and began foxhe 
Chapters, but could never bring his defign to fo much perfeftion, 
as could give fatisfaftion tohisown mind and intent ions^ This our 
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