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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	1,890	5	9.4049	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65786	An exclusion of scepticks from all title to dispute being an answer to The vanity of dogmatizing / by Thomas White.	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1824; ESTC R11142	42,212	90

applyed to his Method of Demonstrating and to his practice not in disputing but defining For as in Plays 't is a commendation to entangle the story that it may come off at last with greater admiration So 't is the task of the Inquirer to confound the Question with proposing Difficulties before it that the Demonstrator may clearly Vnidicate it and as it were dispelling the clouds restore it to Light 5. This Plea requir'd Instances out of that work of his The Author presses three Upon Gassendus's credit I believe or some other slight Lookers into it for in the Book it self there 's nothing to be seen The first runs thus He proves the World to be perfect because it consists of Bodies that Bodies are perfect because they consist of a triple dimension that a triple dimensions is therefore perfect because consisting of three and that three is perfect because two we call both and never say all till we come to three Look into his First book De Coelo Chap. 1. You shall find these last words make no part of the Demonstration but are additional only and that the Demonstration it self is this Because the World consists of Bodies the perfection of the World is to be perfect in the Notion of Body Now the perfection of Body lies in this that it be spread every way upon three prependiculars as the Geometricians demonstrate And thus are both the several Bodies and the World but in a divers manner For the several Bodies are terminated each to others whence though they are spread according to all the lines yet not to the whole or utmost extent of them But because there is no space beyond or without the World as 't is demonstrated in the fourth of his Physicks the World is spread according to all and the whole lines or perfectly every way and by consequence must be said perfect in the Notion of Body and so absolutely 6. The second Instance is that Aristotle asserts were there more Worlds the Moon would fall down upon the Earth This consequence the Arguer thinks sprung from such a fancy as theirs that fear the Antipodes should drop into Heaven But he reflects not how great pains the Philosopher took to establish the Center of the World in the Earth Which granted this consequence would depend not from fancy but reason as himself seems to confess 7. The third Instance too drawn out of lib. 2. cap. 5. De Coelo Is utterly perverted For Aristotle teaches not that the Heav'ns are therefore carry'd towards the West because the West is the Nobler as the Argument makes it but that the West is the Nobler because the Heav'ns are carry'd towards it Now there 's this difference betwixt the two that in the former Method 't is assum'd without proof that the West is the Nobler in the later it follows out of those things which Aristotle had concluded viz. That there 's nothing Accidental in Eternal Things and by consequence that the Motion towards the West is Natural to the Heav'ns and Natural Motion is to the more honourable whence it clearly follows that the West is Nobler than the East It follows I say for if the Principles were true 't were a Noble Demonstration Eleventh Plea Refutes some Topicks babbled against Science 1. ABout the end of the Chapter he expresses indignation that the learned so employ all their pains upon Logick Physick and Metaphysick that the Sciences usefuller to human life viz. concerning the Heav'ns Meteors Fossils and Animals but especially Politicks and Oeconomicks are much neglected Nor can I deny that these are neglected in the Schools but what 's guilty on 't but the Scepticism that reigns there For if the Sciences were taught in Aristotle's Method there would be room enough for all nor would nature be taunted with the usual calumny that Mans life is too short for the Arts But the necessary ones once known there would advance still a surplusage of leisure to take abundantly in any of these Sciences that delight which human Curiosity should be drawn to But they are the Scepticks that envy this happiness to men confounding all things with endless contests especially those common truths which Aristotle has demonstrated such as are Formal Divisibility that what ever is mov'd is mov'd by another that a Continuum or Bulk is divisible in infinitum that there 's no vacuum and such like without the owning whereof before hand 't is in vain to make Experiments for acquiring Science Since they will all come at length to be resolv'd into these Principles or else there will be ever a straining after Science unproffitably without any Principles at all 2. In his eighteenth Chapter he reproves the Peripatetical Doctrine as insufficient to solve Phaenomena's But this he does out of Error or Spleen For if he takes the Doctrine of our Modern Philosophical Apes to be Aristotle's own he 's strangely in an error but if he denyes Aristotle to have taken pains to solve Problem's he 'l be shewn guilty of Injustice by all his Books of Natural Philosophy those especially which usually follow his eight Books Which of the Moderns has more happily unbowel'd Nature than Digby who at every turn is mindful of Aristotle and candidly accepts his Dictates The Adversary urges that the Systeme of Heaven is mis-contriv'd by Aristotle Open the accusation you 'l find the sum and very knot of it to be that Aristotle had not an Optick Table else supposing those Phaenomenas of the Sun which enlightened Aristotle's Age his Discourse in his Books De Coelo merits all admiration That the Intelligences are the Movers of the Heav'n is Christian Doctrine That there is a certain Fire swimming upon our Air is nothing else but Cartes's Ether or a kind of rarer Element enbracing the convex of our sky If Aristotle has err'd in a very few things why yet so much anger shall we not allow Philosophy its growing time If yet he may be said to Err and not rather ingeniously and ingeniously to propose who professes he conjectures not Demonstrates as Aristotle does in his Books De Coelo 3. His ninteenth Chapter inveighs against Aristotle's Doctrine as unfruitful and barren but weakly and falsely Weakly because all the inventions he speaks of belong to Artificers and Handy-craft-Men not Philosophers whose office 't is to make use of Experiments for Science not to make them Falsly because Aristotle's way of Doctrine being about Common Notions without which there 's no comprehending Particulars nothing is truly invented without it I but they are Generals that are found in Aristotle It must be reply'd that he and his Disciples deserve thanks for devulging them and fixing a step to climb thence farther and higher But if my Divination fails me not I see were Aristotle's Principles pluck'd up Philosophy unable to give an Account of ordinary Effects I 'm sure the Philosophy which admits Vacuities is reducible to no Rules for acting And Cartes's Vortices I shrewdly suspect no