Thirteen books of natural philosophy: viz. I. Of the principles, and common adjuncts of all natural bodies. II. Of the heavens, the world, and elements. III. Of action, passion, generation, and corruption. IV. Of meteors. V. Of minerals and metals. VI. Of the soul in general, and of things vegetable. VII. Of animals or living creatures. VIII. Of man. Unto which is added five books more of natural philosophy in several discourses. IX. Discourse I. Of the principles of natural things. X. Dis. 2. Concerning the occult and hidden qualities. XI. Dis. 3. Of atomes and mixture. XII. Dis. 4. Of the generation of live things. XIII. Dis. 5. Concerning the spontaneous generation of live things / Written in Latin and English. By Daniel Sennert, doctor of physick, [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper, physitian and astrologer,, Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts [and William Rowland?].
- Daniel Sennert
- Date:
- 1661
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Credit: Thirteen books of natural philosophy: viz. I. Of the principles, and common adjuncts of all natural bodies. II. Of the heavens, the world, and elements. III. Of action, passion, generation, and corruption. IV. Of meteors. V. Of minerals and metals. VI. Of the soul in general, and of things vegetable. VII. Of animals or living creatures. VIII. Of man. Unto which is added five books more of natural philosophy in several discourses. IX. Discourse I. Of the principles of natural things. X. Dis. 2. Concerning the occult and hidden qualities. XI. Dis. 3. Of atomes and mixture. XII. Dis. 4. Of the generation of live things. XIII. Dis. 5. Concerning the spontaneous generation of live things / Written in Latin and English. By Daniel Sennert, doctor of physick, [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper, physitian and astrologer,, Abdiah Cole, doctor of physick, and the liberal arts [and William Rowland?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![when it is burning icrifes into bubbles. And therefore without doubt tha t fame Hone contains initfome kind of Earth tempered with moifture, in which moifture doubtlefs the form is, which is afterward actuated by the force of Heat, and being rouzed ingenders this Animal ; as in ocher furnaces and about Bakers Ovens Crickets are engendred of theMorcer. And thefe Fire'flies have a different matter from all other Spontaneous Animals; *vi\. amolt dry foocy vapour railed from . aduft matter and cleaving to the tides of the Furnaces, wherein the fofmlies hid, which is by the ftrongeft Heat ditpofed to formation, but dies with cold. That Animals are alfo bred in the Snow Ariftotle teaches, 5. de eHift. Anim. Animals ig. Yea alfo, faith he, inthofe thing* which can fuffer no corruption, we bt'A°utDf k,nown Animals to breed, as reddilh hairy Worms in old Snow. But in the t enew. gnQW 0£(]y[edia greater and W1 hirer are found; they are all fluggilh and move very hardly. He relates alfo the fame thing in 2. deWlantiSjCap. 1. An &<tliny Lib. ir. Cap. 5.wr;tes. In old white Snow Worms are found; inthemiddeft of the Snows thicknefs reddilh (for the Snow it felf looks red with Age) hairy, large, and Lazy. AndOlaui‘Magnuf3 Lib. 2. deWiji. Septentr. reg. cap. 8. faith thus: in the molt vaft defarts of If eland, efpecially under Juniper Trees, and great heaps of Ch if | or Straws, although the Sun be in the Scorching lign of heo3 there is lnow lying, wherein in the Summer time they keep Wine and Seer who defire to drink Luxuri- oufly , but no Body mingles the Snow with his Wine or Beer, becaufe of its Clam- minefs and Impurity. For Worms and Moths are found in it, juft as in Cloaths ill dl(MdrcUrialit indeed, Lib. 3. Variar. Lett cap A. doth altogether queftion the truth hereof, becaufe Heat is required for the Generation of Animals which is not in Snow, and becaufe the Snow is wont to kill fuchpecty Animals in the Earth as are wont to hurt the fruits thereof. And if any W^orms ace leen in Snow, he con¬ ceives they came out of the Earth, and fo entred into the Snow. But thefe Reafons are not fufficienc to make us rejeff the teft monies of fo many Learned Men. Foe there is fome hear in Snow. Although Snow of its own Nature is exceeding cold, yet it may receive Warmth from the Sun and from the Earth; efpecially out of the Earth many hot exhalarions do arife, which the Snow retains within ic Self. And therefore husband men do in the Winter wilh for Snow to cover their fowed Land ; becaufe experience hath caught them, that the Corn is fooner hurc by the coldneL of the Winter Air if it be not covered with Snow, then when it is fo covered; not hac V the Snow it felf doth warm the Corn, but becaufe ic keeps in and retains the exhalations which fpring out of the Eari,h, and hinders the coldnefs of the Ait from piercing to the Corn. ' „ _ . Now thefe Worms are bred in the Snow, not as it is fimply Snow or Rain congea- W»ms art led with cold, but inafmuch as Pouders Juyces, or Excremencs of Plants or Animals bred in the difpofed to the produ&ion of fuch Worms are mixed therewith; and then vVorms Snout. areWdof Snow afcer the fame manner as of Rain, of which we fhail fpeak here¬ after. Again the fame Exhalations and Atomes may afcendouc of the Ear h, be¬ ing ful of them, when it is covered with Snow, and may fo be mingled with t he Snow. Yea and duft containing in it the Rudiments of fuch Animals may by the winds be brought from elfwhere, and mixed with the Snow; winch chiefly hap¬ pens in Snow thac hath lain long. Now this matter which way foever it. comes to be mingled with the Snow, when after it comes to be cherifhed by the hmb ent hear, raifed partly by the Sun, partly from hot Vapors exhaling out of the Ground., the concealed form difplaies it felf and produces Worms. Now, this feldom happens in the upper part of the Snow, fince the heat exhaling out of the Earth, neceiiary to excite the Form, doth hardly rife fo high, nor can long continue there, feeing it is eaflly diffipated by the cold Winds. It is alfo wel known to Husband-men, thac out of Rain, Dew, and Milts, iundry sain DtZ petty Animals are bred inthofe Plants which they fal upon; as they often find to Mills. their great dammage. For by the Heat of the Sun Vapors ouc of all kinds of Sub¬ lunary Bodies are carried from the Earch up inco the Air: wherein there being Atomes containing in them forms difpofed to breed fuch petcy Animals, or an Ani¬ mal-making Nature, as Tbeopbrajim calls it; when they are cherifhed by the Amoi- ent heat, and gam thac difpoficion of matter which is neceffary to the performance of operations fundry forts of Worms are generated. And thefe W orms are either](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30324051_0418.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
