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A46233	An history of the constancy of nature wherein by comparing the latter age with the former, it is maintained that the world doth not decay universally in respect of it self, or the heavens, elements, mixt bodies, meteors, minerals, plants, animals, nor man in his age, stature, strength, or faculties of his minde, as relating to all arts and science / by John Jonston of Poland.; Naturae constantia. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1016; ESTC R11015	93,469	200

four most excellent Sudorificks unto us Guaicum China Sassaphras and Sarsaparillia but also by the writings of Mathiolus Thurnheuserus Lobelius Clusius Carrechterus and Bauhinus who was fourty yeers composing his Table of Plants To these I adde the most Famous Man Adolphus Vorstius the Botanist at Leiden University in Holland who was my Tutour whose Skill I often wondred at and that not without amazement III. To this Chymistrie may be joyned which though it were somwhat known to the Antients For Sennertus writes it is probable that Tubal Cai● was the first founder of it and that it flourished in Egypt and chiefly in Arabia as Geber Avicenna Rhasit c. do witnesse Yet in these later Ages it was most adorned by Lullius Rogerius Basilius Valentinus but above all by Paracelsus and his followers Suchtenus Dornesus Thurnhes●erus Severinus and Crollius and also by those Chymicall Physitians Andernacus Quercetanus Sennertus D●odate and is brought now to this height From whence divers Medicaments have sprung Tinctures Spirits Extracts Salts Magistrals Praecipitates Glasses Reguli Flowrs Milks Sugars Gills c. And though it must be confest that some of them are dangerous to give yet this must not be denied that it is onely when an unskilfull Physitian useth them and they are prepared by an unskilfull Chymist Otherwise Extracts and Tinctures are stronger than Syrups Decoctions or Infusions For when the profitable parts are parted from the unprofitable strange grosse and earthy parts or as Schegkius saith as it were from their excrements and reffuse as one may say it cannot by any reason be denied but they must be more effectuall pleasing and durable To this belong Magnetick cures transplanting of Diseases Cures of such as are lame c. Of these the Antients speak very little but Paracelsus Crollius Bargravius Taliacotius Petraeus and others have spoke abundantly Wherefore Quercetanus seems to have said well If Hippocrates Aristotle or Galen himself were now alive he would be amused to see this art augmented and adorned with so many Ornaments enriched with so many new Inventions and confirmed with so many wonderfull operations Part. III. Nothing is wanting in speculative Philosophy WHat we said of the three Faculties we can boldly affirm of Philosophie But Philosophie being either speculative or practicall and that we speak of in this part comprehends under it Metaphysicks Physickes and Mathematickes We must demonstrate this of each of them in particular As for Metaphysicks after Averroes both the old Scholiasts and Thomas Scotus and the modern Spanish Philosophers Sanchiez Suarez Fonseca Masius c. have adorned it And amongst other Nations very many are found as Shieblerus Timplerus Cornelius and Jacobus Marnii Scharfi●s Lippius Jacchaeus Capsius c. Who partly have included it in an exact method and in part have illustrated it with most exquisite precepts in part have adorned it with most large Disputations If Keckerman had finished his that he began there could be nothing wanting as many suppose that were needfull to the perfection of a complete work directed to its proper end And I think that no man will deny but that Sagittarius hath been a great help on his Canals A speciall part which others call Pneumatica is so illustrated and corrected out of the Scriptures that it may well be written on the Altars of former ages To the unknown God The Doctrine of Angels which many of the Antient Divines thought to be Corporeall is admirably described It is most certain that no writing of the Antients can be compared to that of Delrius de Disquisitionibus Magicis of Peucerus and Julius Caesar Bullinger de Divinatione Naturall Philosophie is far more excellent now than formerly it was For I. In Aristotle innumerable speculations concerning Matter the World Heaven and other things are false We have them now corrected by Aslachus Danaeus Campanella Verulam Bartholinus Nollius Buthardus and many others I know not whether Drebbellius hath not exceeded the Antients in his Book of the Elements III. Naturall History before Pliny his age began again to spring up at length in his dayes it increased Yet because the new world was not then open nor so great search made all could not be discovered by Pliny that since that time hitherto is very exactly known by Aldrovandus Gesner Agricola the Anatomists and others Boetius most accurately searched out the nature of Stones The wonder of the Loadstone were searched by Gilbertus and Cabaus and Gesner found out more cleerly the nature of Coralls III. No man will gainsay that the chiefest of operations is that whereunto the knowledge of things naturall must be directed He is the legitimate son of Naturall Philosophy who knowes how to produce new Metals can multiply and increase Windes can make artificiall Baths of Vitrial B●imstone Allum Can let fall Artificiall Snow Rain Hail Frosts c. Can produce new Plants and Animals But the practick part of Philosophy was till now in the greatest darknesse at last in our age the way to it was opened by famous Vernlam Vicount of S. Albanes Chancellour of England in his New Organum his Sylva Silvarum his Historie of Life and Death and of Windes And those that have afforded any thing notable therein were either of the age newly past or of our times Histories are full that Paracelsus Kelleyus Setonus did Transmute Metals into Gold Johannes Hunniades a Hungarian the chief of all the Chymists in England our friend did Enliven a Mettal that run He shewed the same Art concerning whom Roger Bacon speaks thus It is more easie to make Gold than it is to destroy it Which Angelus de Sola thought to be impossible reason of the fixednesse of the Mercury of Gold the maturity and the so straight Conjunction of it with the other substances of the same body that it can never go back I think but a few are ignorant what a Polonian Physitian did for the r●renewing of plants again See more in Rhodologia Rosenbergeri Lastly this Winter an English man is reported to have found out a new and easie way to make Salt of Sea-Water As for the Mathematicks there is no doubt but our Ancestors came short of us in knowledge of Geography For I. Strabo oftimes refutes Erastosthenes Hipparchus Polybius and Posidonius so doth Ptolomy Marinus Tyrius yet they also are imperfect being compared with Mercator Merula Ortelius Maginus Cluverius and Carpenter II. In the time of Pope Clement the sixth as Robert Avesburiensts testifies when Lodowick of Spain was chosen to be King of the Fortunate Islands and raised an army in Italy and France the English that were at Rome then with the Leger Embassadour departed supposing him to be Elected Prince of England as being one of the Fortunate Islands III. One Ephorus an accurate Greek writer supposed Spain which he called Iberia to be some mighty City Also the beginning of Nilus was formerly unknown But now adayes they are discovered The originals of