II. Cafpari Bartholini Ihom. F. Specimen Fhi- 
lofophia Natnralis. Accedit de Fontinm , 
Flwz/iorumqne Origine Dijfertatio Phyjha Am- 
ftelodam. i6pj, 12""'' 
TH E Defign of this Piece is to Inftrud the Youth 
of Copenhagen in the Rudiments of Natural Phi- 
lofophy, therefore the Author delivers his Elements in a 
ihort compendious Method; in which he treats of Hy 
pothefes^ of the Underftanding in General, then proceeds 
CO Principles , as Matter, Form, Motion, Extenfion, 
Divifibility, Space, Time, Afterwards he handles 
particular Qualittes, as Heat, Cold, Fluidity, Solidity, 
Rarity, Denfity, Light, Colours, Sound, Tafte, Smell, 
Gravity, Magnetifm, ©c. He Examines the feveral 
Elements and Syftems of the World, the Earth with all 
its flrata, Inequalities, and Foflils the Air and Hea- 
vens with the Meteors and Celeftial Bodies. After which 
he defcends to the Fundions of Animal, and Vegetable 
Bodies, as Senfation in general, and all the Senfes in par- 
ticular ; Digeftion, Nutrition, Secretion, Excretion, Re- 
fpiration, Generation, Mufcular Motion, Vegetati- 
on,©*c. 
To thefe the Dutch Book-feller has annex d ^DiJferta^ 
tion of the Author St publiftied in ^to, about Nine or Ten 
Years ago, which Difcourfes upon the Rife of Springs 
and Rivers, wherein he firft defcribes the internal and 
external Face of the Earth, with its feveral Beds , Lay- 
ers and Crufts, (which he derives from the Sediments of 
the General Flood , as well as of particular Inun- 
dations, 
