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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60267	Hydrologia chymica, or, The chymical anatomy of the Scarbrough, and other spaws in York-Shire wherein are interspersed some animadversions upon Dr. Wittie's lately published treatise of the Scarbrough-spaw : also a short description of the spaws at Malton and Knarsbrough : and a discourse concerning the original of hot springs and other fountains : with the causes and cures of most of the stubbornest diseases ... : also a vindication of chymical physick ... : lastly is subjoyned an appendix of the original of springs ... / by W. Simpson.	Simpson, William, M.D.	1669 (1669)	Wing S3833; ESTC R24544	218,446	403

coincidence of words whose great variety would indeed be indefinite not to say infinite and puzzle the greatest Arithmeticians in the World Now if we did but consider the great variety the number seven doth produce by the various transposition of its unites would perhaps facilitate our understanding how the various transposition of the Decade might produce sufficient variety to signifie all things in the World In order to which Let us consider the seven Tones or Notes in Musick whether vocal or instrumental it 's all one though they be numbred eight yet in reality they are but seven and that because two of them are found to be flat and therefore make up but one Note These seven contain all the varieties of Tones in Musick for these in three Cliffs viz. in F C and G make up the whole Scale of Musick in as much as the Cliffs are but a repetition of the same Notes in different Keys high or low so that an Octave is but a Unite again and therefore makes no alteration to the seven radical Notes Now suppose a Monochord to be the Diameter of a Circle That to be divided into seven parts in the Semidiameter of which one way is produc'd a Diatessaron or fourth the other Semidiameter upward a Diapente or Fifth which Fifth is again divided into a Ditone or Third major and a Third minor From the beginning of the Diameter to the end of the lesser Third is a Hexachordon or Sixth but from Unison or the beginning of the supposed Diameter to the end or Octave thereof is made a Diapason or Eighth all which are reckoned Concords so they be not Seconds or Sevenths to the immediately preceeding Note in the order of the Scale So that all Tones whether Concords or Discords are wrap'd up in those seven Notes which are express'd by these almost Universal Characters viz. Sol La Mi Fa c. or by a more facile way of the first seven Alphabetical Letters Which Notes though in number but seven yet I say the transpositions thereof are so various as that all the Composed Pieces of Musick of Voyce or Instrument in the whole World hath not yet fathomed the depth of them yea and though a Hundred Masters in Musick were set a part to Compose all the variety they could in an Hundred Years would still find a plus ultra and some varieties they never hit on before so indefinite is this Septenary Number For it is a complete number comprehending both the Creation as also the Rest or Cessation from Creation in it is contained the wrestling Wheel of the properties of Nature and the Systeme of the Planetary Orbs which are the bodies of those properties the number of the Metals are therein comprised also the number of the days of the Week the Jubile and the Clymacterick are from it multiplyed into its self And Lastly All Harmony is therein contained though the chief Concords therein are the Diatessaron Diapente and Diapason whence is the truth of that saying Tria sunt omnia yet the whole Scale of Musick is wrap'd up therein as aforesaid Now if the Septenary give this great variety how much more shall the Decade or number Ten give by the various transpositions thereof Which number was called by the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The World Heaven and all Perfectness thereby representing the large extensiveness thereof it comprehends all number for when we have numbred the Digits if we could go further we must begin again This number as the ingenious Dr. More in his Philosophical Cabbala observes from the Pythogorean Doctrine is made by scattering of the parts of four Thus 1 2 3 4 put together make Ten 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Universe which was reputed such a secret amongst Pythagoras his Scholars that it became a solemn Oath with them to swear by him that delivered to them the misteries of the Tetractys Tetrade or number Four But besides the extensiveness of the Decade in various transpositions thereof it would also be more readily understood by other Nations in as much as it is generally known to most other People for if I mistake not the Chi●enses have the same Characters for their Numbers as we have now for distinction of them as an Universal Character from themselves as representing numbers should be by writing the one larger than the other Seventhly Whether Children should not be trained up in the learning this Character from their infancy For let the Character it self be what the Contrivers please whether in Figures or other form'd Characters of Lines circular or angular as they shall agree yet this whatever it be is to be delivered to all School-Masters to whom the instruction of Youth is committed who are to teach them every day the signification of so many Characters as they find they are capable of not burdening their memories with too many at a time and those of things most familiar and of greatest use so skilfully ordering their Method in teaching them as that it may beget a kind of delight and pleasure in Children to read them And instead of asking them What letter is that to ask them What word is that Which in a while by being accustomed thereto they will readily answer as they usually do to the name of such and such a letter so that in time these Characters will easily be learnt and take such deep impression as they in a while will find a facile promptness to read them without hesitation Now for the promoting the understanding of which they should neither learn to read nor write any other Language whatsoever not so much as their Mother Tongue For as to their own Language we see Children get it fast enough by hearing others talk to them Where if we observe we may perceive a Notable method hinted to us in Childrens beginning to speak that Language that is first taught them viz. That though we speak to them according to the Syntax and Connexure of our Language yet they onely at first admit of Vocabulary words and of those Monosyllables the easiest laying hold of those words where the most stress and greatest Emphasis of a sentence appears waving all Connective and Concomitant termes which we call by the name of Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions and Intejections singling out the significant words without respect to Case gender or Number in Nouns or Moode Tense Number or Person in Verbs Which observation is no small hint to a method both in the teaching of this Universal Character as also for a Compendious instruction in the teaching of Latine or any other Language For first as to the Universal Character it hints that a bare Character is at first to be taught without any variation or respect whatever to the Syntax or without the observation of any Rule whatsoever Nakedly decipering the Characters of the most usual words and things which most frequently occurr in a Vocabulary reserving others of less use till afterwards And when Children are grown up