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A76851	Proposals for the printing an entire course or body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes, wrote in Latin by the learned Anthony Le Grand which will now be carefully translated into English by good hands, with large additions and alterations by the said author, and printed in folio, with an illustration of about an hundred ornamental scultptures / by Richard Blome, dwelling near Clare-market in New Weld-street, at the house with green pallisado-pails; where proposals are delivered and subscriptions taken for the same, and where they may inspect the said work.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3216C; ESTC R42823	7,561	4

PROPOSALS FOR THE Printing an entire Course or Body of PHILOSOPHY according to the Principles of the Famous Renate Des Cartes Wrote in Latin by the Learned Anthony Le Grand which will now be carefully Translated into English by Good Hands with large Additions and Alterations by the said Author and Printed in Folio with an Illustration of about an Hundred Ornamental Sculptures suitable to the several Subjects By Richard Blome dwelling near Clare-Market in New Weld-street at the House with Green Pallisado Pails where Proposals are delivered and Subscriptions taken for the same and where they may inspect the said Work THe Books of this Learned and much esteemed Anthony Le Grand now to be published in English are the Institution of PHILOSOPHY the History of NATURE and a Discourse of BRUTES Which said Books have been so well received by the Learned that several Impressions have been made and vended here in England and in Forein Countries And now to this Great Work the said Author for the publick Good has made such large Additions as well as Alterations therein that nothing material is wanting to make it an entire Body of Philosophy and is rendred so facile as to be of use and delight to the meanest Capacities And for the making this Work the more acceptable to the Curious it shall be Illustrated with about 100 Sculptures dispersed through the Work to such Chapters as best admit thereof all designed and drawn Historically by good Artists And besides the said Ornamental Sculptures there are great variey of Schemes for the Explanation of the Philosophical Parts that require the same This Work as aforesaid is divided into Three Books The first treats of the Institutions in 10 Sections or Parts First Of Logick divided into 23 Chapters Secondly Natural Theology or Metaphysicks in 16 Chapters Thirdly Daemology and Created Spirits in 11 Chapters Fourthly Of Natural Philosophy in general and of Bodies in 25 Chapters Fifthly of Special Natural Philosophy of the World and Heaven in 23 Chapters Sixthly Of the four great Bodies viz. the Earth Water Air and Fire in 23 Chapters Seventhly Of Living Creatures in general as Fourfooted Beasts Creeping things Birds Fish and Insects and in particular of Plants in 23 Chapters Eighthly Of Man as it respects his Body in 23 Chapters Ninthly Of Man as to his Mind Affections or Passions of the Soul in 14 Chapters And Tenthly Of Ethicks or Moral Philosophy treating of the right ordering of a Mans life c. in 37 Chapters The second Book viz. the History of NATURE in 9 Parts which illustrates the first Book of the Institutes and consists of great variety of Experiments relating to the several Parts thereof and explained by the same Principles The third Book is the Tract or Discourse of Brutes giving a Mechanical Account of their Operations The French for some years past have Printed their Books in their own Language which has been a very great improvement to real Learning and Knowledge even in the Female Sex to their great commendation and much to the Honour of the Nation which Reasons may be sufficient for the Printing this Work in our Native Tongue And as this Work can't but be acknowledged by all to be of great use for the advancement of real Learning as well as Entertaining and Pleasant so 't is hoped Encouragement will not be wanting chearfully to embolden the Undertaker Richard Blome to finish the same wherefore he humbly tenders these Proposals The PROPOSALS 1. Those that please for the Advancement of so good a Work to Subscribe and pay to the said Richard Blome or his lawful Assigns by Writing under his Hand and Seal Fifty Shillings shall have one of the said Books in Sheets Twenty Shillings to be paid the said Richard Blome when about half the Book is printed if so required by the said Richard Blome upon the delivery of a Receipt under the Hand and Seal of the said Richard Blome and the remainder to be paid on delivery thereof in Sheets And such as are curious in their Books may have them of a finer sort of Paper gracefully Ruled and carefully Bound or the Sculptures illustrated in Colours paying the Charges thereof II. Such as for the further Encouragement of this Work will be greater Benefactors shall according to their generosity have one or more of the said Books as aforesaid with a Memorial of their Arms and Titles so as allowed by the Heralds Engraven either at the beginning of the Book or to a Sculpture as Patron thereof to remain to future Ages as Promoters to so good a Work and if to a Sculpture then at the beginning of the Book also And it is desired that the Mony so subscribed above 50 s. the price of the Book be advanced to the said Richard Blome for and towards the said Charges of the Arms and Sculpture for which a Receipt shall be given by the said Richard Blome under his Hand and Seal III. Such as procure Subscriptions for Six of the said Books shall upon the payment of the Mony due for the same have one of the said Books in Sheets presented them gratis Altho' the Subject of this Work is very useful and delightful and performed by so good an Author and Illustrated with such great variety of Sculptures all done by the said Author's Directions suitable to the Subjects and that the Book is set at so low a rate yet considering the badness of the Times and the great Charge in Printing there will be but a very small Impression made which will be Printed by Michaelmass Term 1693. Subscriptions being a voluntary Act and Encouragement if performed 't is desired that none Subscribe but such as will readily recieve their Books and pay the Mony according to the Proposals by them Contracted for For Advancement of the said Work I promise to receive of the said Richard Blome his Executors or Assigns One of the Books and pay the Sum of _____ according to the Proposal Witness my Hand this _____ day of _____ Anno Domini 169 _____ An Account of the said WORK ANd forasmuch as PHILOSOPHY the Subject of this Work is of so copious an extent comprehending the Nature c. of all Things that the Mind of Man is capable of knowing Therefore for the better satisfying of such as desire to be Subscribers 't is thought convenient to give a short Account of the principal Heads therein Treated of This Work is divided into Three BOOKS The first The Institutions of Philosophy The Second The History of Nature And the Third A Discourse of Brutes The Institutions is divided into 10 Parts and those into several Chapters The First Part is of Logick which the Author calleth the Organ or Instrument of all Philosophy It is divided into 4 Parts and those into 23 Chapters and treats First Which are the Obstacles to the attaining of Science and how to be removed Rules for attaining Truth Nothing is admitted for Truth which includes any Doubt Not to

rely too much on the Senses Whatsoever we see clearly and distinctly is true The various manners of Perception Of the Five Universals examin'd as to their nature properties and use Of Substance and its affectives or modes Of the common Attributes of Substance How Substance agrees to God and the Creatures The Genealogy of Things and Modes Causes and Effects Subjects and Adjuncts of the distinctions whence the natures and differences of Idea's are deduced Secondly Of Judgment Absolute and Comparative What a Proposition is and how many sorts there are Of Truth and Falshood Of Propositions Definitions and Division Thirdly Of the Ratiocination of the Mind Of Reasoning or Argumentation Of simple Syllogisms and those either complext or incomplext conjoyn'd or compound Of Demonstration Topical Sylogisms and Sophistical Of Places or Topicks whence the Medium Term is fetch'd Fourthly Of Method or orderly ranking our Thoughts Of the general and special Method of Knowing The Method of Composing and Rules of Definitions and Axioms The Second Part treats of Natural Theology or Metaphysicks which is divided into 16 Chapters First An Introductory Discourse its definition and certainty What God is and how known by us which appears by the inborn Idea we have of him That Existence doth necessarily belong to God which is deducible from the contemplation of the Things of this World Of Fate and that it puts no force on the Will Of Divine Attributes and first of the Unity of God that he is Eternal Immense not circumscribed in any one place the most simple Being that he is True and can't deceive nor be deceived that he is Supream and All-knowing that he is Good and doth Good is Almighty the Creatour and Governour of all things The Third Part of Created Spirits Angels and Demons which is divided into 11 Chapters and treats of the division of Created Beings The Doctrin of Spirits What the Nature of Angels is Whether the Existence of Angels is demonstrable by the light of Nature The Faculties of Angels as to their Understanding Will and Power to move produce or assume Bodies their Number Distinction and Subordination whether they be in a place talk together and of their Care over Mankind and these inferiour Beings The Fourth Part Of Natural Philosophy in General which is divided into 25 Chapters and treats of the Essence and Certainty of Natural Philosophy The Existence of Material Bodies Of the Nature of Matter or Body Of the properties of extended Substance its divisibility and impenetrability The division of Matter into sensible and insensible Parts The Threefold kind of Matter and that there are but three Elements of the World That there are no material Forms in Bodies Whether there be any Qualities or real Accidents What intelligible Forms may be attributed to Natural things The Nature of Rarefaction The heaviness and lightness of Bodies Of Place The Nature of Motion Of the Motions assigned to Nature's endeavouring to avoid a Vacuum Of the simple and compound determination of Motion Of Reflection and Refraction The force of Action and Resistance The state of Bodies as those hard and fluid Their rarity and density roughness smoothness c. and that there are Pores as well in fluid and thin Bodies as in hard and consistent Of Duration Time and Eternity The Fifth Part Of Special Natural Philosophy of the World and Heaven which is divided into 23 Chapters and treats of the Unity and Perfection of the World its Form c. That GOD as he is the efficient and conserving Cause of Matter so likewise of Motion The Action of Bodies and the Communication of Motions Of the Ptolomaick Copernican or Tychonick Systems of the World and of the true System of the Universe That the Heavens are fluid Bodies How the Heavens were ranged at first and of their different Motions The Action and Motion of Celestial Matter Of the Celestial Globe and its Circles Of the Sun Of Light and Refulgency and how Spots come about the Sun and the reason of their Vanishing Of Comets Of the Original and Affections of Planets The Principal of the Planets motion and of their station direction and retrogradation Of the Moons motion and its various Appearances Of Eclipses of the Sun and Moon Of the fixed Stars and their Influences And of Judicial Astrology The Sixth Part Of the Four great Bodies the Earth Water Air and Fire and what mixt and compound Bodies proceed from them This Part is divided into 24 Chapters and first of the Original of the Earth and its Figure that the Earth is moved by the fluid Heaven which surrounds it An Answer to Aristotles and others Objections against the Motion of the Earth Of the Visibility of Day and Night and the Seasons Of the Zones and their Inhabitants and of the Climates Of things generated in the Earth as Fountains Metals Minerals c. The Productions of Stones common and precious and of their difference Of the Load-Stone and its virtue whereby it draws Iron Of the Water the Flowing and Ebbing of the Sea Of the Nature of the Air. Of the Elastick force of the Air. Of Meteors and first of the Wind. Of Rain Dew and Hoar-frost Of Snow and Hail Of Thunder and Lightning Of the Rainbow Of Fire and the Nature of Heat and Cold. Of the various effects of Fire and amongst them of Earthquakes Of the Mixtion of Bodies as also of their Changes viz. Generation Corruption Alteration Augmentation and Diminution The Seventh Part of Living Creatures in General and in Particular of Plants This Part is divided into 23 Chapters Of the Division of Living things How Living Bodies differ from those without Life That Bodily Life consists in heat and moisture and that their Death proceeds from the contrary Principles of cold and driness Whence the hardness proceeds that is found in the outside of Living things Of the diversity of Heat in Living Bodies Of the virtue and nature of Food that abides in the Bodies that are fed by them That Living things are changed according to the diversity of Time and Place Of Plants as to their Original Nutrition Growth Difference and Propagation by Grafting their colour taste smell c. Of the diseases and death of Plants Of Animals Of the Soul of Brute Beasts and what it is Of Four footed Beasts and Creeping Things Of Birds Fish and Insects and of the death of Animals The Eighth Part of Man with respect to his Body which is divided into 24 Chapters The definition of MAN The outward and inward Parts of Man's Body The forming of the Birth in the Womb the configuration of its Parts and the vivifying or animation of the Compound How the Body is Nourished How the Motions of the Heart Arteries and Muscles in the Body is performed Of the Circulation of the Blood Of Respiration Of the growth and decrease of Mans Body Of its Temperaments and different Ages Of the Senses in general and in particular of each viz. Feeling Tasting Smelling Hearing

and Seeing of the Eye of Colours and how the Sight is performed Of Watching and Sleep Of Hunger and Thirst Of the common Sense of Imagination and Memory Of Health and Sickness of Medicine in general and of their Operations The Ninth Part of MAN considered with respect to his Mind which is divided into 14 Chapters and treats of the Nature of the Mind of Man and that it is more evidently known than the Body That the Mind is distinct from the Body and that the same is Spiritual or Immortal Whether there be any inborn Idea's in the Mind Of its Faculties viz. Understanding Imagination Will and Memory Of the Affections or Passions of the Soul In what part of the Body the Soul feels its Passions Of the number and order of the Passions Of Wonder or Admiration of Love and Hatred of Desire or Longing and of Joy and Sorrow Whence the Natural Inclinations and Aversions of some Men arise Of the Immortality of Mans Mind and its state after Death The Tenth Part treating of the ●ight Ordering of Mans Life which is divided into 37 Chapters It begins with an Introduction of the worth and use of Ethicks or Moral Philosophy the Subject of this Part. Of the nature and principal Parts thereof What Good is and how and why it is desired That the good things of the Body do not conduce to the Happiness of Man That outward Good things are not for his Good What is the highest Good in this Life and his ultimate End Of Vertue in general Of the Law of Nature and right Reason and the Practical dictates thereof of Prudence Temperance Fortitude and Justice Of the usefulness of the Passions of the Soul and of Admiration Of the end of Love and Hatred and their Interpretations Of the use of Desire Joy and Sorrow Of the government of the Passions and their Remedies Of Mans Liberty how they continue Free notwithstanding God's Power and whether the Liberty of his Will can be hindred Of Human Actions and the goodness and pravity of them Of the Duties of Man in general and of a good Citizen in particular Of the Rule of Human Actions Of Man's Duty towards God and towards himself Laws to be observed with respect to other Men as to Bargains Contracts or the like and by what means Obligations may be broken Laws that respect Speaking and Swearing Of Dominion and the Duties or Offices thence arising Of the Duty of Married People the like of Parents and Children Masters and Servants Of the Right of Dominion and its different Forms viz. Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy Of the Duties of Sovereign Lords and the Duties of Citizens The Second BOOK viz. the History of Nature which Illustrates the First Book of the Institutions and consists of great variety of Experiments relating to the several Parts thereof and explained by the same Principles This Book is divided into Nine Parts and subdivided into several Articles or Heads The First Part treats of Bodies viz. an extended Body in general Of Epicurus his Reasons for Vacuities c. The Experiments by which Cassendus asserted Vacuities discust Of Bodies divisible rarified and dense hard and fluid rough and smooth transparent and opaque bent and comprest The Second Part treats of Qualities viz. of Qualities in general of Heat Cold Gravity and Lightness of Taste of Smelling of Sound of Light of Heat and of hidden Qualities The Third Part treats of the Earth and Heaven viz. concerning the Beginning of the World of the generation of Things and the disposure of all its Parts of the generation and corruption of Things of Heaven of the Sun of fixed Stars of the Moon of Spots in the Sun Moon and fixed Stars of Comets of the production of Stars and of Astrological Predictions The Fourth Part treats of Earth Water Fire and Air viz. of the Terrestrial Globe of the Waters and the properties of certain Waters of Fountains and Rivers of the Sea its Flux and Reflux of Fire of Earthquakes and subterranean Fires of Glass of Ashes and Coals and of the Air. The Fifth Part treats of Minerals and Metals viz. of Metals in general of Mercury and Sulphur of Salt of Gold Silver Tin Lead Brass and Iron of the various generations of Stones of Gems and of the Load-Stone The Sixth Part treats of Meteors viz. of Vapours and Exhalations of the Wind of Clouds Rain Hail and Snow Dew and Hony of Tempest and Thunder of Lightning of the Rainbow of Fire and Air kindled of Circles about the Moon and of counterfeit or Mock-Suns The Seventh Part treats of Plants viz. their production and strength their obvious and occult Qualities their Sympathy and Antipathy their Birth Nourishment Generation and Death The Eighth Part treats of Animals viz. of Animals begot of Living Creatures produced from Seed of Monsters of the Birth of Animals of Hunger and Thirst of the Motion of the Heart and Circulation of the Blood of the Actions of Animals of the aversion and agreement of Animals of Sleep and Watchfulness and of Diseases of Animals The Ninth Part which treats of Man viz. of the Senses of Feeling Tasting Smelling Hearing and Seeing of Imagination and Memory of Dreams of external Passions and of the natural Inclinations and Aversions The Third BOOK is a Tract or Discourse of Brutes giving a Mechanical Account of their Operations c. An Account of some Volumes which the Nobility and Gentry may be accommodated with that were Printed for the said Richard Blome dwelling in New Weldstreet as aforesaid as also by the aforementioned Booksellers Viz. THe Gentleman's Recreation in Two Parts in large Folio The first of the Liberal and Mathematical Sciences which in a brief and clear Method treats of the Doctrin and general Parts of each Art with Eliptical Tables engraven on Copper Plates for the better comprehending the same The Second Part at large treats of Horsmanship Hawking Hunting Fowling Fishing and Agriculture all being Collected from the most Authentick Authors and the many gross Errors therein Corrected with great Enlargements made by those well Experienced therein And for the better Explanation thereof great variety of useful Sculptures as Nets Engins Traps c. are added for the taking of Beasts Fowl and Fish not Published by any Nothing material being omitted for the rendring them compleat The whole Illustrated with about 86 Ornamental Copper Plates in Folio The History of the Old and New Testament treating of the most remarkable Transactions therein with good and useful Morals for the better government of our Actions in all Conditions To which is added the Travels Voyages and Lives of the Apostles with a large Historical Chronology of such Matters of Note that are related in the Bible Collected and Translated by Good Hands from Authentick Authors The whole Illustrated with about 240 Sculptures of the most remarkable Passages peformed by good Artists far surpassing any Collection hitherto done to the end it may be the more Acceptable to the Curious This Work is Printed in Two Volumes in large Folio of a fair Print and chiefly designed for the Curious The said Work is likewise Printed in large Octavo with all the Sculptures as designed for a more general Sale The said Richard Blome is now Reprinting a useful Volume of Cosmography and Geography in Two Parts in Folio The First of the Arts of Cosmography and Geography being a Translation of the much Esteemed VARENIUS The Second Part is a Geographical Description of the World from the Works of the Famous Monsieur SANSON with about 100 Geographical Tables of the Kingdoms and Isles in the World with their Chief Places drawn from the Maps of the several Kingdoms which Illustrates this Work And to this Impression are added the County Maps of England drawn from those of Speed's in a smaller Scale For this Work the said Richard Blome takes Subscriptions Proposals being delivered to those that desire the same by the said Richard Blome or Mr. Richards his Book-Binder at the Bible at the Corner of Essex-Street as aforesaid where they may have a perusal thereof