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An Account of fame Books . 
/. F REE CO N SI DERATIONS about SUBOR- 
DINATE FORMS; Ay the Honourable ROBERT 
BOYLE 
T His Trad is an Appendix to the Noble Author’s Exmen 
of Sub ft ant id Forms, published lad: year, and reprinted this. 
T here hath been already given an Account of the principal 
Part, as appears by Numb, n, ’Tis very fit the like diouid be 
done now of this confiderable Appendix. 
Fit ft then it* clears up and Rates the Dodrine about Subordi- 
nate Forms,, a$. it is maintain’d by divers learned Moderns , efpe- 
cially Sennertus , who teacheth, thatbefide the Speclfick Form 
(fo called by him,) there may refide in Animals and Plants, cer- 
tain other Forms, fo fubjed to the predominant Mi(lre[s-Form , 
that they deferve. the Title but of Subordinate Forms, and du- 
ring the Reign of the Spccifick 0 are fubfervient to it ; yet when 
that is depofed or abolifht, thefe Inferiour Forms may come to 
fet up for themfelves, viz. 
This done, the Author tryes, Whether the Phenomena and 
EfFeds of thefe pretended Subordinate Forms may not be as 
well as the principal ones, intelligibly explicated by the Mechani- 
cal Principles , vid. Matter and Motion , and the thence refulting 
Shape and Texture . Which that it may be done, is fo happily 
made out in this Tradf, that a Rational, Unprejudiced and At- 
tentive Reader cannot but embrace the Author s Dodrine, and, 
according to it, be fatisfied, that the portions of Matter, that 
are endowed with thefe pretended Subordinate Forms , cannot pay 
the prefumed Superintendent Form any other obedience, then 
fome fuch kind of one, as the parts of a Clock or Ungine may be 
faid to yield to one another. So that the whole matter may be 
■well conceived to be nothing but this ; That, when divers bo- 
dies of differing natures or Schematises come to be affociated fo 
as to compofe a Body of one denomination, though each of them 
be fuppofed to ad according to irs own peculiar nature, yet by 
reafon of the coaptation of thofe parts, and the contrivement: 
•pf the compounded Body., it will many times happen, that the 
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