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Show .. I, . - .of the ·~duancrJmerit Of/earning . ,·ntovfe with.fufficient d"~xteritie·, ~ithout t~1e a~de . and inteFueyning·of the Mathemattcks.: of whtch (or e~re P~rJPct1iu~.,v)ttuftcke, Af'':'nomse, Cifmogra, p'hie?Archi~eCiurt ,Ingtnartt, and dmer~ others. In th~ ~athemattclcs, 1 canrepo~t noc: ddictencl!,except Jt b¢ that men doe not fuffictently vnderfiand ·the c.x· cell en t vfe of the pure M athem4ticks_, in tliat i~c~ doc remedie and· cure :many· defects ~tn the Vt( 1t, and Faculties Jntelled:uall. ·For , :·tf the. ·wlt bee to dull, :they. lharpen it· : :if to wanddng , they ~x it: .jf to inherent in the enfe ,. they · ·abflract 1t~ So ttritt, . as Tennis is a game of no.e vfe in it felfe, but of-great· vfe , in rcf~eet it m~keth a .quick~ ~ye, .and·-a bodie reaq1c to_put ·tt felfe Jnto_all Pofiun~s: So in the Mathem·auck~s, t:hat yfe \Vhtch is collateraU and· interiu:nient, is no lc:ffe WOJthy; · then that which isprinc·ipalb1nd intended • An~ asfortheMixt Mathematilets I mayoneJy maketh1S prediCtion , ·that there cannot' faile to bee more kind~s o(th¢'-m, as Nature growes furdcr difclofed~ ~ Thusmut:hof N. AT V R A L-S.C,IEN C E, or thcp·artofNature SPECVL!\T.l -VE. I · ForN A,T.VR ALL P.R VDEN C E,orthe partO PER-A·TIVEof-'-l AT'VR·A L LPH I. L 0 S 0 PH :Y ~we will deuide it into lhree parts, · ·EX PERI MENTAL,PH I~ LOSOPH ICAL and M A G.Ic,A·L,whic_h three parts A C·TI V.E hauc a corrt:fpondece ana ·Ana logic with the three ,·partsS.PECVLATIVE:N A:TV~A L H,I· · .. · s rroR~, · 'The focond ho.o{t.. . 32 PHISI.<~KE' , andMET·APHI . : fpr·many operations haue bin inti.ented a· cafooll incidence and occurrence · '_ a purpofed experiment: and of rhofo . - ~bene found by an incentionaJI ex peri .. ~haue bin ~ot~nd out by varying or ex ten-fame experune.nr,fome bytr:&flfferring and · . ,..,,,~, .. g diuers experiments the one into rhe, ~tJcu-'kind ofinqention an Etnf)erique may , ,.,-.·"'!·-·,;-·nc by.l heknowledgcof PhificaJI eau· !lot fuile ro follo\ve, many indications ~~~~~-.. ·"••ons.of nc.\V¥!rticulers., it rnen in their \fJill iktcpeone eye vpon':vfe& pr.attife. are but Coaflings along the fl1oare, Pre .. il!iqtulm,For ir fcemeth rome, there can difcouercd any raaica11 or fundamentall ) ·arid innouations inN ature ;· either by. & tffi1ycs ofexperiments,or by the light ~..,.,..n ofPhiftcal caufes.Ifthe.rfore ~~e haue :e. TAP H 1 ·s 1 c· K E dcficienr,it rnufi fol- Natural,~· · ~ee doe the li~e of N A T v 1\ A 1 !\1 A Nfa itiflue 1ch hath rdauon ther.eumo. For as for PI~ O 'R A. L M A a 1 .c K I! whereof now fh{~re . )t_; U:a • A books , col\·taining cevtair.lr·cr.edu· peratiU:a er(Htious conceits and ol>feruations1 Maior • . --"ft"·', .and -.4ntipathi.is and hidden Jiro~ ~mHJp.Jome friuolous experiments ).ftrn nge !llt.ellt2-uiffinent~, then in themfcltfes, J-r is 'as · ng tn truth of Nature, from (uch a kno"tV· . we rcqn.ire , as the llode of ~ing 1lrthur . of : |