Volume 2

The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts.

Bernard Nieuwentyt

Date:: 1718-1719

Credit: The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Argument fake, and for a greater Conceffion, that the three uppermoft Buds of each Branch fhould only be Wood-Buds, and that the feven under- mott ‘fhould produce Fruit. in their Seafon.;, there will be after this manner likewife Air and Room enough between every Branchof the Tree; which after having ftood twenty Years, without reckoning the Fruits of the intermediate Years, would be able» to yield in the 2oth or laft Year, a great ma- of saneger of Millions of Fruits from fo, many uds. | Yea, that at prefent thereare innumerable Buds that remain ufelefs and fruitlefs upon Trees, may be {een by lopping the moft and greateft Branches of one that is {trong and found ; at which time - one fhall fee a vaft Number of young Branches peeping out at feveral Places. Now. that . they cannot fhoot out but at the fame place where there were Buds firft; may appear plain enough to any one that but takes the Pains of flitting’ a {lender Branch through its Bud lengthwife, by. which he will be convinced, that in the Buds. ouly are the Paflages through which the Wood-= Fibres or Veffels can run outwards. _ Befides-that, there may be many others that efcape our Sight’;, as‘on both Sides, in the Seam of each Branch: where it is faften’d to the Wood, there are two Buds that few People have obferved : -Which, if’the Branch be cut acrofs, of the. thicknefs -of : a Crown-piece, do almoft always afford.two Fruit). Branches ; or only one on that fide of the) Tree: that the Perfon who. cuts it fas a Mind: to,pro= , duce it, efpecially if with his Knife he cuts.away = the other Bud. [See La Quiutinye, Part. TV. Cape. XVH, and XX] ust op SU 318 They that wouid be informed of fomething.al- - moft incredible concerning the Fertility of Trees, — may confult the ‘Tranfactions of the Royal French sah eiooiuy ce, : Academy,$

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