The art how to know men / ... Rendred into English by John Davies.

  • Marin Cureau de la Chambre
Date:
1665
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Credit: The art how to know men / ... Rendred into English by John Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO KNOW MEN, 325 fhould be Mafter of, to make his advantage of thac familiarity. | I fhall not make the bufinefs more difficult then it is, nor bring in hither all the jother’ Sciences, to keep this Art of ours company. I might fay, that Medi- cine and Moral Philofophy are particularly requifite thereto, That treating of Climats, and the natures of feveral Animals, ic cannot well be without Geo- graphy , ‘and Natural Philofophy , That treating further of the Proportions and Figure of parts, ic ‘it might feem not well able to do it, without Arith- metick and Geometry ; And, infine, that its judg- ments being grounded on acontinual ratiocination, and one ofits Rules deriving its name from Syogi/m, it were requifite, that he, who would apply himfelf doubt, to proceed further in this confideration, we may affirm, that there is not any Science,but may be ‘that a Man fhould go and confult Hippocrates, Ari- frotle, Euclid, and Ptolemy to become a Proficient therein , and balking all thofe ftudies, that. of the prefent work will,in my judgment,be fufficient to learn It, and to make an advantageous ule thereof. But for this latcer,. I require in. him, who would exercife himfelf therein, two things, which] cannot abfolutely teach him, One fhall premote the good ufe he may make of this Science, and the other thall preventhis abufing ofit , as fhall be deduc'd in the two next enfuing Articles, ~ PB at siearigntth Fy tee niacin Ia Leta! sme le nT Si ail 5 itn NO i Nt IR “p be te CE LY ‘ Ei se i} Pais S enn SION
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