Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Person, David.
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London :: Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon,
1635.
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Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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"Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Pages
OF THE
WORLD.
Sect. 1.
OF the various distractions of Philosophers in their
opinions concerning their Gods; and upon how ill
grounds they were setled, 94
Sect. 2.
Of the severall sorts of Gods amongst the Heathen;
that they imagined them to bee authors of evils; that
they were but mortall men: And some opinions of Phi∣losophers
concerning the nature, beeing, and power of
their Gods. 51
Sect. 3.
Pythagoras opinion concerning the transmigration of
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Sect. 4.
The former Heathnick opinions confuted by our Chri∣stian
Beliefe; that they differed concerning the time of
the soules continuance, and place of its abode; how they
thought soules after the separation from the body to bee
rewarded for good or ill, &c. 56
Sect. 5.
Philosophicall tenents of plurality of Words confu∣ted;
of Gods Creation of male and femall of all living
Creatures. 58
Sect. 6.
Severall opinions of severall Philosophers concerning
the Worlds Eternity; their naturall reasons for appro∣ving
of it; and what the Egyptians thought concer∣ning
the antiquity of the World. 60
Sect. 8.
The most approved opinion of all Philosophers con∣cerning
the Worlds beginning and matter: the infallible
truth of it; and a checke of Augustines against over∣curious
inquisitors after those and the like mysteries. 64
Sect. 9.
How Philosophers differ from Christians in the wayes
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Sect. 10.
The order of the Elements, with some observations of
the Ayre and Water. 70
Sect. 11.
Of the Earth, that it is the lowest of all the Elements;
its division, first into three, then into foure parts; and
some different opinions concerning them reconciled. 71
Sect. 12.
Of the different professions of Religion in the severall
parts of the world: what Countries and Ilands are con∣tained
within Europe, and what within Asia. 73
Sect. 13.
With what Religions and Sects all the Easterne and
Northerne Countries are possessed, and in what places
Christianity is most professed, &c. 75
Sect. 14.
America and the New found-lands briefly descri∣bed;
and some opinions about what time of the yeare the
world had its beginning. 77
Sect. 15.
Wherein is to bee seene some things concerning the
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Sect. 16.
Copernicus his opinion of the Earths moving, confu∣ted:
Archimedes opinion of the world: an Induction
to the following Section. 81
Sect. 17.
The division of the starrie firmament, in twelve houres;
of the Power and efficacie that is attributed to the Tri∣plicities
of them over every Country: and the maintai∣ners
of these opinions confuted: the divers dispositions
of people of severall nations, how attributed to the natu∣rall
disposition of the Planets: An observation of Gods
Providence. 83
Sect. 18.
The causes of the Changes of severall things as of men,
Countries; plots of ground, &c. and that these pro∣ceede
not from triplicities as Astrologers would have
it. 87
Sect. 19.
How ancient Writers have compared Man and all his
parts to the World and all its parts; wherein is recoun∣ted
the different dispositions of men of different Coun∣tries;
and to what Countries the faculties of the soule
are attributed. 88
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