To the Number of the Letter of the Alphabet , the word be^ 
; gmswith 5 add7. ■- ■ _ 
Example, Feare is the word for Ottober^ and F. the flxth Let- 
ter: Wherefore the Sun enters, into the 8, Signe, to wit Scorpio# 
on the 13. of October, 
An Account of fonie Books. • 
l PETRI LAMBEGII LIB. PRIMUS PRODROMI 
HISTORIC LITER ARIzsE, : &c. — , 
T He Author of this" Book is now the Biftonographer and Li- 
brary keeper to the Emperour. He publiflit this Volume 
fome few years agoe at Hamburg, the place of his Birth, (whence 
an Exemplar was but lately font to the Puhltfier.) He was exci- 
* ted to this Work by the complaint made by the Illuftrious Lord 
Ferulam, (Lib. z.cap.q. de Angm. S'cientiahm ) of the -want of a 
compleat Htftory of Learning, that might give a fatis factory. Ac- 
count of the Rife, Progrelle, Trans-migrations, Interruptions , 
Declinations, and Reftaurations of all kind of Learning, Sciences, 
Arts, and Inventions $ together with the octafm of inventions 
through all Arts 5 the Method of teaching, and the Manner of im- 
proving and advancing them : Adding the various Setts, and the 
moft famous Controverts among the Learned • the Encourage - 
ments, they received* the chief Writings, they compofed *, their 
Schooles , Academies, Societies , Coll edges. Successions, Orders , and 
whatever belongs to the State of Learning. 
This Grand iDcfideratum our Author undertakes to fupply the 
World with 5 and in order thereunto hath, given us the Fir ft 
$ook of the Prodromns of this Hiftory, and with it the Fw fir ft 
Chapters of the Second Book, together with an Appendix, contain- 
ing a Summary of the Chief Per fens and Things, he intends more 
fully and accurately to treat of in the remaining 32. Chapters, 
deiigned for the fame fecond Book:, To which he fgb joy ns two 
Tables of Fniverfall Chrcnograf hy in the firft whereof he exhibits 
the fucceffion. of all Ages from the Creation of the World to 
the Beginning of the Common C hr i ft ian Account 5 in the other , a 
Continuation of them from the Beginning of the Laid Account 
unto this prefent Age* In which Tables he gives a general idea of 
.die Connexion of all Ages, as they are computed in fefpedf of the 
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