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A54605	The advice of W.P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib for the advancement of some particular parts of learning	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing P1914; ESTC R5444	17,747	31

willing to make Luciferous Experiments 6. It may engage them to be Mecaenates and Patrons of Arts 7. It will keepe them from worse occasions of spending their time and estates 8. As it will be a great Ornament in prosperity so it wil be a great Refuge and stay in adversity and common calamity As for what remaines of Education we cannot but hope that those whom we have desired should make it their trade will Supply it and render the Idea therof much more perfect We have already recommended the studie of the Elements of Arithmetick and Geometry to all Men in generall but they being the best grounded parts of Speculative knowledge and of so Vast use in all Practicall Arts We cannot but commend deeper enquiries into them And although the way of advancing them in particular may be drawne from what we have already delivered concerning the Advancement of learning in generall yet for the more explicite understanding of our meaning herein we referre to Master Pells most excellent Idea thereof written to Master Hartlib In the next place for the Advancement of all Mechanicall Arts and Manufactures we wish that there were erected a Gymnasium Mechanicum or a Colledge of Trades-men or for more expedition untill such a place could be built that the most convenient houses for such a purpose may be either bought or hired wherein we would that one at least of every Trade but the Prime most Ingenious Work-man the most desirous to improve his Art might be allowed therein a handsom dwelling Rent free which with the Credit of being admitted into this Society and the quick sale which certainly they would have of their Commodities when all men would repaire thither as to a Market of rare and exquisite pieces of Workmanship would be a sufficient Motive to attract the very ablest Mechanicks and such as we have described to desire a fellowship in this Colledge From this Institution we may clearly hope when the excellent in all Arts are not onely Neighbours but intimate Friends and Brethren united in a Common desire and zeal to promote them that all Trades will miraculously prosper and new Inventions would be more frequent then new fashions of Clothes and household-stuffe Here would be the best and most effectuall opportunities and meanes for writing a History of Trades in perfection and exactnesse and what Experiments and stuffe would all those Shops and Operations afford to Active and Philosophicall heads out of which to extract that Interpretation of Nature whereof there is so little and that so bad as yet extant in the world Within the walls of this Gymnasium or College should be a Nosecomium Academicum according to the most exact and perfect Idea thereof a compleate Theatrum Botanicum stalls and Cages for all strange Beastes and Birds with Ponds and Conservatories for all exotick Fishes here all Animalls capable thereof should be made fit for some kind of labour and imployment thaa they may as well be of use living as dead here should be a Repositorie of all kind of Rarities Naturall and Artificiall pieces of Antiquity Modells of all great and noble Engines with Designes and Platformes of Gardens and Buildings The most Artificiall Fountaines and Water-works a Library of Select Bookes an Astronomicall Observatory for celestiall Bodies and Meteor large pieces of Ground for severall Experiments of Agriculture Galleeries of the rarest Paintings and Satues with the fairest Globes and Geographcall Maps of the best descriptions and so farre as is possible we would have this place to be the Epitome or Abstract of the whole world So that a man conversant within those walls would certainly prove a greater Schollar then the Walking Libraries so called although he could neither write nor read But if a Child before he learned to read or write were made acquainted with all Things and Actions as he might be in this Colledge how easily would he understand all good Bookes afterwards and smell out the fopperies of bad ones As for the Situation Modell Policy Oeconomy with the Number of Officers and Retainers to this Colledge and the Priviledges thereof it is as yet time enough to delineate Only we wish that a Society of Men might be instituted as carefull to advance Arts as the Iesuites are to Propagate their Religion for the government and mannaging of it But what relish will there be in all those dainties whereof we have spoken if we want a palate to tast them which certainly is Health the most desirable of all earthly blessings and how can we in any reason expect Health when there are so many great difficulties in the curing of diseases and no proportionable Course taken to remove them we shall therefore pursue the Meanes of acquiring the Publicke Good and comfort of Mankind a little further and vent out conceits concerning a Nosocomium Academicum or an Hospitall to cure the Infirmities both of Physician and Patient We intended to have given the most perfect Idea of this Nosocomium Academicum and consequently to have treated of the Situation and Fabrick of the House Garden Library Chymicall Laboratorie Anatomicall Theater Apotheca with all the Instruments and Furniture belonging to each of them as also of the whole Policy and Oeconomy thereof But since such a work could not be brought to passe without much charge the very naming wherof doth deter men even from the most noble and necessary Attempts we are contented to pourtray only such a Nosocomium as may be made out of one of our old Hospitals without any new donations or creeping to Benefactors onely with a little paines taken by the Reforming hand of Authority For we do not doubt but that we have so contrived the businesse that there is no Hospitall in its corrupt estate can be more thriftily managed then Ours For the Number of our Ministers are no greater then usuall and absolutly necessary their Pensions no larger then are allowed to those who do not make the service of the Hospital the sixth part of their Employment and meanes of subsistance and yet we give encouragement enough to able men to undertake it without medling with any other businesse which we strictly forbid For as the Salaries are but small so the Charge of the Ministers is not great they being all to be unmarried Persons their Accommodation handsome their Employment being a work of Publike and highest Charity honourable and to Philosophicall Men who onely are to have a hand in this businesse most pleasant and delightfull Besides when their respective times are expired their profit and esteeme in the world cannot but be very great For their way of breeding will both procure them practice among such as are able to reward them and give them a dexterity and ability to manage and go thorough a great deale thereof Moreover the smalnesse of the Salary the long servitude among poore wretches and restraint from Marriages the great paines and naturall parts required to performe duties will I hope prevent all intrusions

by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions 3. In this perusall all the Reall or Experimentall Learning may be sifted and collected out of the said Books 4. There must be appointed able Readers of all such Books with certaine and well limited Directions what to collect out of them 5. Every Book must be so read by two severall Persons apart to prevent mistakes and failings from the said Directions 6. The Directions for Reading must be such as the Readers observing them may exactly agree in their Collections 7. Out of all these Bookes one Booke or great Worke may be made though consisting of many Volumes 8. The most Artificiall Indices Tables or other Helps for the ready finding remembring and well understanding all things contained in these Bookes must be contrived and put in practice Having thus taken the height or pitch wherunto al Arts and Sciences whatsoever are already come and observed where they now stick the ablest Men in every respective Faculty must be set apart to drive them on further with sufficient maintenance and encouragement for the same Whereunto it is requisite that two or three one under another be employed about each Faculty to the end that some of them dying or any other wise failing there may never want men acquainted with the whole Designe and able to carry it on with the help of others to be admitted under them And that at least yearly Accompts be taken of those mens endeavours and rewards be proportioned to them accordingly And now we shall think of whetting our tooles and preparing sharp Instruments for this hard work by delivering our thoughts concerning Education which are 1. That there be instituted Ergastula Literaria Literarywork-houses where Children may be taught as well to doe something towards their living as to Read and Write That the businesse of Education be not as now committed to the worst and unworthiest of men but that it be seriously studied and practised by the best and abler persons That all Children of above seven yeares old may be presented to this kind of Education none being to be excluded by reason of the poverty and unability of their Parents for hereby it hath come to passe that many are now holding the Plough which might have beene made fit to steere the State Wherfore let such poor children be imployed on works wherby they may earne their living equall to their strength and understanding and such as they may performe as well as elder and abler persons viz. attending Engines c. And if they cannot get their whole living and their Parents can contribute nothing at all to make it up let them stay somewhat the longer in the Work-house That since few children have need of reading before they know or can be acquainted with the Things they read of or of writing before their thoughts are worth the recording or they are able to put them into any forme which we call inditing much lesse of learning languages when there bee Books enough for their present use in their owne mother Tongue our opinion is that those Things being withall somewhat above their capacity as being to be attained by Judgement which is weakest in children be deferred awhile and others more needfull for them such as are in the order of Nature before those afore mentioned and are attainable by the help of Memory which is either most strong or unpreoccupied in children be studied before them We wish therefore that the Educands be taught to observe and remember all sensible Objects and Actions whether they be Naturall or Artificiall which the Educators must upon all occasions expound unto them That they use such Exercises whether in work or for recreation as tend to the health agility and strength of their bodies That they be taught to Read by much more compendious meanes then are in common use which is a thing certainly very easie and feasible That they be not onely taught to Write according to our Common Way but also to Write Swiftly and in Reall Characters as likewise the dextrous use of the Instruments for Writing many Copies of the same thing at once That the Artificiall Memory be thought upon and if the precepts thereof be not too farre above Childrens Capacities We conceive it not improper for them to learn that also That in no case the Art of Drawing and designing be omitted to what course of Life soever those children are to be applied since the use thereof for expressing the conceptions of the mind seemes at least to us to be little inferiour to that of Writing and in many cases performeth what by words is impossible That the Elements of Arithmetick and Geometry be by all studied being not onely of great and frequent use in all humane Affaires but also sure guides and helps to Reason and especiall Remedies for a volatile and unstedy mind That effectuall Courses be taken to try the Abilities of the Bodies and Minds of Children the strength of their Memory inclination of their Affections either to Vice or Vertue and to which of them in particular and withall to alter what is bad in them and increase and improve what is good applying all whether good or bad to the least Inconveniencie and most Advantage That such as shall have need to learne Forraine Languages the use whereof would be much lessened were the Reall and Common Characters brought into practise may be taught them by incomparably more easie wayes then are now usuall That no ignoble unnecessary or condemned Part of Learning be taught in those houses of Education so that if any man shall vainely fall upon them he himselfe onely may be blamed That such as have any naturall ability and fitnesse to Musick be Encouraged and Instructed therein That all Children though of the highest ranke be taught some gentile Manufacture in their minority such as are Turning of curious Figures Making Mathematicall Instruments Dialls and how to use them in Astronomicall Observations Making Watches and other Trochilick motions Limning and Painting on Glasse or in Oyle Colours Graving Etching Carving Embossing and Molding in sundry matters The Lapidaries Art of knowing cutting and setting Iewells Grinding of Glasses Dioptricall and Catoptricall Botanicks and Gardening Making Musicall Instruments Navarchy and making Modells for buildings and rigging of Ships Architecture and making Modells for houses The Confectioners Perfumers or Diers Arts Chymistry refining Metalls and Counterfeiting Iewells Anatomy making Sceletons and excarnating bowells Making Mariners Compasses Globes and other Magnetick Devices And all for these Reasons 1. They shall be lesse subject to be cousened by Artificers 2. They will become more industrious in generall 3. They will certainly bring to passe most excellent Works being as Gentlemen ambitious to excell ordinarie Work-men 4. They being able to make Experiments themselves may doe it with lesse charge and more care then others will doe it for them 5. The Resp. Artium will be much advanced when such as are rich and able are also