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.
![21 q. NaturaU^Philofojyhical Vifcourjes. Book V. that the Apples were changed into fucb Birds j but they were mifiafen. *For in t ime by the Sea* 'virtue Worms grew to the Apples, and they encreafing, and the Apples ro tmg by the moifiure and vamftnng, they through want of good heed imagined< that the Apples were turned into fijefe l^nds of ‘Fcwles, So far Tiettor ‘Bo#** tim. Julius Cdfar Scabger, Bxercit 59. Sett. a. thus writes concerning chi; matter: Xou urns'] ui* may rather wonder that in the *Britannicb&cean> aBird unknown in your parts hangs ZJ; by the B ea\,m the Timber of rotten Ships, till it grow to perfection> and wim away, be- ligtr. ingfajhion9d Hkg a T)uch^ and living upon (Fifh, I have atfo ficn one of thefe B owls, The Qafcoigns inhabiting by the Se t fide call them Ccabraw,but the Britanies Bearnacks. Pl A a little after : There was brought to the rnoji excellent andgreat ^wgFrancn, a’Shet- fifb as it famed, not very large, in which there was a young \“Bird amofi perfetted, with the tops of the Wings, the Bill and Tom, fueling to the fdrtbefl p<grts of the Shell. . tVetrm Bena, ard ‘Matthias Lobelias, In their Ohfemtions of P!anrs,near the encJ?Vrite .f™ thus^cof cerning thefe Geele. This example of Matures endeavouring to draw Come good Lobd. even out of corruption makes us now willing to beleeve many thrhgj which elfe we fhould have laughed at,if we had read them in the *Hijionans of the ‘Nprijjern parts of the Wot Id. Although they relate the matter fomwhat differently, that this is only found in Scot land, or inthe :jlands of QiCddes, anciently conquered by the B[oman e3fjivy, But we have not onh from Scotland, but here aljoan the Bfver Thames where it runs by the City 0/London’, Shells wh o have been plucky from the ‘Bottom of an old Ship, with thick rugg£d fiafl{f. They a every fmal, as round in a manner as Cockles, white without, finning. Smooth, as thin ird Brittle as hgg fisels, opening with two fides life Limpins, of the fi\e of an Al¬ mond Tint compr Jed : now thefe hung on the outfide of the Belly of a large Ship, upon which bang half rotten with Mofi and Mud there grew as it were the fialkj of Mufhroms, re fembling the ft^iVi l firings, the ends whereof after the manner of ‘Fruits were inferted into the broad end or Bafts of the Cockles, as if the little Birds were thence to draw their life and nourishment, the rudiments of which Birds were to befeen in the upper fides of the Cockles which gaped. Thefe fialkj BUfiorians report togrow firfi out of Worms, which we could not difeern, nor do we yet bdeeve it to befo: although we kjuw that fucb kind of Cockles mofi neatly fhaped do grow on pieces of Wood caft up by the working of the Sea. And fucl^of them as fall upon the dry land dye; but fucb as remain in the Water do batch a Bucl^or a Bowie of that bynd. The BLnglifh and Welfh cal them Barnacles \ the Scots cal them Clac^Geefe, andtbere are many of them in Scor land, where they are caught, when the ftandwg Waters are frozen with Ice. When we did eat of them, we conceived that they tajiedhke aT)ucli, or wildQoofe. o/Mi- Among the Germans, Michael Mejer, in his Treatife de Volucri Arborea Chap. 3. him- eh«l Me* felt being an Eye witnefs relates, tteac out of Sheis like Cockles fucb Geefe are bred, and jcr. that he had feen welinigh an hundred fuch Cockles, which being opened, there were fmal young birds in them, ready as it were to come out of the Egg, with all members nectffaFy to fly with, fome of which Birds he had in his own bands. Thus he defetibes them: if at any time a piece of a Sbip-mafi fmeared with pitch fallinto the Sea which runs betwixt the Oicadcs and Hebrides Ijlands, and lies there for fame confides able time, it grows not only rotten byreafon of Worms bred within it, but it is covered all over with Sea-weeds, Jlore cf which grow in thofe parts, andupon any wood that is in the Water, efpeciaUy if itfweat forth a Bitchy fatnefs, as the Majls of Ships made of Bir or Bitch Tree, and abounding naturally with Bpfin, and pitched over for the fervice of the Ship, that the fades may be fwiftly hoifedup and let fall, and not fiich^any where. cP{pw the Sea bears thefe weeds on the bottom thereof, whence at a certain feafon it rifes up to the top, being as it were plucky up or cut oj by the Waves. This weed being bred in the Water doth not eafily putrifie, having much faltnefj in it and therefore in North-Holand, and many other places, they inaiig flams thereof very firong againft the Violence of the Ocean, fo as they fetch a remedy from whence the Bhfeafe comes. The forefaid pieces of Wood therefore being covered with this weed, which infinuates it [elf into the fmal holes which remain by reafon of the rotten- nefs thereof; inp^ocejsoftime, at the other Bmd of the /aid weed fmal Cockjes as it were do growwhich are wbitifl), or of the colour cf a Mans <P{aili and in fhape much refemb- Iwg the Tfail of ones little Binger, and the two Sheis being fo joyned together, that they fiictydoje9 on the upper and more pointed fides they receive the Sea-weeds end, and are firmly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30324051_0428.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
