Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning / [Joseph Glanvill].

  • Joseph Glanvill
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1668
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Credit: Plus ultra: or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning / [Joseph Glanvill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Phi. | And a | ad f Jet ines, | t fo rays fi aor J “| igs fh of Ufeful Knowledge, 71 itfhould be f@, is the reafon why *tis not ; and this is plain enough to fen/e, from the confufion of Vifion, which fhews, that the rays are not united after the way requifite for the aiding the fight (as I juft now inti- mated ) and how that fhould 4, I had here fhewn, but that] am afhamed to add more in earne/? about a BvAbE foolery. And I confefs, Sir, I account thefe perfonal matters a kind of Digreffion from the main thing I intended. ‘To return therefore to my Subject. En nee aaa CHap. X. Our Advantages for Knowledge, from Modern Improvements of Nas tural Eiftory- Hw difcourft the modern Helps vfeful Knowledge \nath for deep Re- fearch, Lamnext (2.) To recount what Aids it hath re- ceived from our better acquaintance wit the Phenomena. For this 1 mutt confider NATURAL HISTORY mote par-