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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRAGMENTUM LIBRI VERULAMIANI, CTJI TITULUS, ABECEDARIUM NATURE.1 Cum tam multa producantur a terra et aquis, tam mult a per- transeant aerem et ab eo excipiantur, tam multa mutentur et solvantur ab igne, minus perspicuae forent inquisitiones Cse- terae, nisi natura massarum istarum, quae toties occurrunt, bene cognita et explicata. His adjungimus inquisitiones de Coele- etibus et Meteoricis, cum et ipsae sint Massae majores, et ex Catholic is. Massac Majores. Inquisitio sexagesima septima. Triplex Tau2, sive de Terra. Massae Majores. Inquisitio sexagesima octava. Triplex Upsilon, sive de Aqua. Massae Majores. Inquisitio sexagesima nona. Triplex Phi, sive de Acre. 1 From the first paragraph of the Karma Historia Prtaentit (sup. p. 17.) it appears that Ricon intended to add at the end of the volume an Abecedariam of abstract natures; and in Dr. Rawley's list of the works composed by him during the last five years of his life (which he enumerates, as nearly as he can, in the order in which they were written), the second in order, immediately preceding the Historla Ventorum, is Abrcsdariiim f'atura, or a metaphysical piece, which is lost. It seems probable therefore that when the volume was published this was not to be found. The fragment which follows was discovered among Bacon's papers by Dr. Tenison, and pub- Ibbed in his Buconiiina, p. 77. Supuosing it to be a part of the lost work, I have thought this the proper place for it. The Norma Abecsdarii, with which it concludes, was probably intended originally to be prefixed, like the Norma Hisleria Prrrsrntis, of which it is obviously a rudiment; but this must have been when the Abecedariam was meant to stand by itself, or to come first; the Historia Ventonm not being yet written. Had it been placed at the e...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217764483 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217764487 |
| Weight | 1.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 In |
| List Price | $16.30 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 452 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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