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A75461	Anthropologie abstracted: or The idea of humane nature reflected in briefe philosophicall, and anatomicall collections.		1655 (1655)	Wing A3483; Thomason E1589_2; ESTC R8560	65,588	195

terminated for it prescirbes bounds and limits unto the sight and determines the act of vision And thus ascribes the Causes of Colour unto the graduall termination of the diaphanum which proceeds 1. from the condensation of the diaphanum alone without the admistion of any other body thus starrs being lucid bodies compacted become visible 2. from the commistion of an opace with a tralucent body thus Fire in the primitive simplicity of its own nature most perspicuous appears red because commixt and obnubilated with fumes and exhalations De colorum commistione speciebus multa egregiè scripsit Scalig. Exercitation 325. and thus from the concorporation and mixture of the Element with another of a lucid and transparent with an opace and terrestrious come forth the primitive and ground colours and from the various and complexed unition of these first and father extream colours all other intermediate and changable tinctures deduce their originall 2. Others refer the causes of primary and secundary Colours to the graduality of opacity and light And the Chymists who in their laborious exploration have out done all other in this abstrusity reduce their causes unto Sal Sulphur and Mercury and believe that bodies receive lustre or obscurity and by sequell the various degrees of colours from the various mixture of their volatile with their fixt salt But from neither not all of these opinions ariseth to a subtle examination satifaction enough to terminate our Enquirie or to accuse us of singularity if in this particular we appear scepticall and professe to suspend our adhaerence to authority untill it shall with lesse obscurity attempt the revelation of this Magnale The Medium of Sight is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Perspicuum Medium visus all bodies qualified with pellucidity or perspicuity and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath more opacity then the Medium Hence is one Element perceptible in another water in Aer and Earth in water and the same colorated thing is conspicuous in pure and limpid water but invisible in turbid and polluted And for this reason a colourated object may be a Medium provided that it be not absolutely opace but more tralucent then the visible For thus Brassavolus saw his Pismire and Cardan his Silkworm through the diaphanous solidity of their Electricall Mausoleums That Vision was doen by Emission Modus Visionis and that the Optick spirits did in a continued visive radius stream from the Eye to the object and so apprehend it was an error of no meaner Extraction then the great Patriarch of the stoicks and adopted to the patronage of all Philosophers that spent that long intervall of time betwixt him and Aristotle but exiled by the justice of Aristotles reason it for ever resigned the possession of the Schools to the just dominion of truth and since few have been such stubborn votaries to the tyranny of ignorance as not to subscribe the opinion of Aristotle that vision is made by the reception of the visible images in to the Eye and that neither radij nor Light nor Spirit are emitted from the Organ towards the object The reasons are most elegantly recited by Jul. Caes Scaliger Exercit. 32 5. 298. 289. Sect. ib. c. Zabar Lib 2. de visu cap. 4.5 and Andr. Laur. Libr. 2. de sens Organ Quaestione prima When we look within our selves Finis visionis and read the end and duty of our sight we cannot but conceive the Error of Anaxaggras Homines ad videndum esse natos more veniall then that of Aristotle and most of his Pupils visum esse sensum Commoditatis and could heartily wish he had said Faelicitatis For the beatitude of man is Essenced in the Knowledge and contemplative though but graduall comprehension of God and no sense so clearly manifest's the immense glory of the Creator as this that is familiar with the beauty of the Creature For though the Brutall part of mankind over-run with sensuality think the institution of their Creation satisfied in the actions of sense and seldome look beyond the barks and Exteriors of things yet the Phiosopher extends his eye to invisibility being ravished with the borrowed glory of the visible and some have been beholding to their sight for their Conversion and happily confessed that the Eye of their sense hath directed the acies of their reason to the essence of all essences and soul of all causalities CHAP. IX Of the Hearing 'T Was a Hypochondriack absurdity of Plato that all our Cognition is but Recognition and our acquired intellection but a reminiscence or rehersall of those primitive lessons the Soul had forgotten for proper Science is proper onely to Omniscience and not to receive knowledge by infusion or acquisition but to have it spring from the foūtain of his own essence is the attribute onely of the Essence of wisdom and a priviledge due to none but the Antient of daies to have his knowledge deriv'd beyond Antiquity but Man poor ignorant Man commanded into the World on the design of knowledge must sweat in the exploration and pursuit of it and can never possess any science in this life but what hee must dearly purchase with his own discovery or precariously borrow from the bounteous industry of his Forefathers Now that the mind of man might partake the notion of what concerns this Quemadmodum aspectus ad vitae dulcedinem commoda magis est necessarius ita Auditus ad accipiendam artem sapienti am scientiam est accommodatior Ille ad inventionem hic ad Communicationem aptior est Lauren. Lib. 2. cap. 12. and the future life his Creator hath furnished him with the sense of Hearing the sense particularly and expresly disposed for Discipline for though wee sing Hymnes to the Eye for the invention yet we must acknowledge a sacrifice due to the Ear for the Communication and distribution of Arts and Sciences And this the Aegyptians intimate in their Hieroglyphick of memory and the Philosopher expresseth in his character of the Hearing Auditus est sensus disciplinae and the glory of our Century Sennertus elegantly delivers thus Aures in Homine quasi porta mentis sunt per quam menti communicantur quae doctrina institutione de Deo aliis rebus necessariis traduntur quaeque nullo alio sensu addisci possunt The Hearing is an Externall sense receiving and perceiving 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all sounds audible 1. Definitio by the benefit of the Ear. 2. Organum The adaequate instrument of hearing is the Ear divided by Anatomists into the 1. Externall and 2. Internall The Externall Eare 1. Auris Externa or Auricula intended by Hippocrates in that prognostick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aures frigidae pellucidae inversae mortiferae was intended by Nature 1. for Ornament 2. for the refraction of the Aer whose uncorrected violence and impetuosity would otherwise shatter the Tympanum or Drum-head 3

the opinion that it is included in the sinus of the ear Vsus deris implantati to symbolize with the external advenient Aer and so invite at least admit it but that the principal and judicatory instrument of Audition is Aer we dare suspect and can produce warrant from no contemptible authority to deny For Hercules Saxonia and Andreas I aurentius men whose names are Antidote sufficient against prejudice account the implantate Aer only for the internal medium inservant to the convoy and transmission of all sounds simple or articulate into the true and proper Organ of hearing and teach us that the Acoustick Nerve determined and expansed in the extremity or cone of the Cochlea or Snayl-shell is the approximate Sensorium of Hearing And Galen Lib. 1. de caus symptomatum Cap. 3. leaves it for granted that the prime instrument of the hearing is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the internal end or extremity of the conduit For the implantate Aer is the receptory of the species audible discharged from the external Aer through the anfractus and sinuous tortuosities of the ear and immediately transfers them to the auditory Nerve which is an exortus or production from the fifth conjugation of the brain running through the perforation of the os petrosum into the ear and there by a particular constitution determined and continued for the speciall and determinate comprehension of Audibles And a Catholic Theorem it is sworn to by Aristotle 2. de Anima Nihil expers Animae alicujus sensus est instrumentum but this innate Aer partakes not animation Vid. Andr. Laurent lib. 2. de sens Organ Quaest. 10. for the Soul is not actus corporis simplicis but Organici wherefore it cannot be the immediate Organ but the internal medium of audition generated of the ambient Aer not by concoction and elaboration as are the Spirits nor there by any action of the Soul but by the perpetual arival of new Aer which is partly transcolated through the Tympanum and so delated into the Cochlea or Snayl-shell and partly derived thither through the slender perforation or pipe opening into the Palate Hence may we resolve that Problem why oscitation or yawning perturbs our Hearing For in oscitation the expulsive Faculty endeavours to discharge a dull vapour lodged in the cranies and chinks of the throat which arising in compression of the parts unto the ears by those Foramina made from them into the palate croudes into the Snayl-shell and causes a tonitruating and tumultuary noise which drownes or adulterates the calmer and more delicate species of sounds offered from without The external medium of this sense is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Personabile Medium externum Aer and Water Both which elements though Aristotle deafe unto the experiment of nocturnal piscation would not hear of the latter concur in their efficiencies and contribute their faculties to Audition in more then a single respect 1. as a medium qualified both for the reception and transvection 2. as materials necessary to the production of soundes For in concussion the Faculty of the Medium or potentia of the Materiall is actuated when it is intercepted and dilacerated betwixt two solid bodies vehemently charging each other And a sound is a quality produced from Aer Objectum Audius or Water percussed and fracted by the suddain and violent concussion or arietation of solid bodies Hence is it manifest to the capacity of any head that was not constellated to ignorance that to the generation or a sound is required the conspiration and concurrence of three concomitant or rather successive Actions 1. the affront or shock of two solid bodies 2. the Elision or disruption of the Medium 3. the resonance of the Medium after which immediately succeeds the sound The manner of this laceration the most Elegant Julius Casserius Placentinus delivers thus Fractionis Modus When two solid bodies strike one against the other the intermediate body is with such impetuosity impulsed that the Atomical parts of it cannot observe the order of motion by succession one after another but rather disorderly throng and prevent each other before the first part hath avoided the place another is driven upon the neck of it and so the motion which when successively performed is gentle and easie becomes by reason of this inordinate impetuosity tumultuary and tempestuous Hence is it that soft and acute bodies yeeld no sound in their collision because the stroke betwixt them doth not so disparkle or shatter the intermediate body that thereon should follow any interpretation or fraction whereby the calme and successive dissipatior yeelding may be prevented The Externall Aer Audiendi modus thus qualified with the impression of a sound alters the next adjoyning Aer and this impells and alters the next to that and so successively untill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contiguity and continuation it arrive at the ear For as on the injection of a stone into water there will arise circles on the surface of the water enlarging and pursuing each other so from the elision of Aer are there generated invisible aeriall circles moving in successive rounds or vocall waves untill they attain unto the Organ of Hearing But this undulation is not dispatched in a moment but in progression of time And for this reason a sound is not presently after the stroke delivered to places at distance we behold the Coruscation of nitrous and sulphurous exhalations fired in the Clouds some minutes before wee hear the fragor given upon laceration and wee discern the flash a good space of time before wee hear the report of a Canon and in the open field we plainly perceive the arme of a man hewing wood lifted up for the second stroak before wee have heard the first The Aer thus impregnated with a sound conducted and conglomerated by the Externall ear first strikes upon the most dry and resounding membrane the Drum-head this thus strucken justles and impells the three small bones and impresseth the Character of the sound on them they immediately glance it forwards to the implantate Aer this shoots it through the windowes of the stony bone into the winding Burroughs thence wafts it into the Labyrinth thence into the snail-shell and at last surrenders it to the Acoustick Nerve which presently transmit it to the Common sense as unto the Censor or Judge CHAP. X. Of the Smell THis is the middle Finger in the left hand of the sensitive Soul and like vertue dwells in Medio between the other four whose Natures stand farther removed from mediocrity For the Sight and Hearing extend their comprehension to the largest remove of proportionate distance and can arrest the object without the line of their owne situation The Tast and Touch work not but by contaction and are not active beyond the narrow Orbe of corporall Contaction and substantiall admotion But the smell whose nature is a reconciliation of the others contrary Extremes