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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- Combat -- 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 May 20, 2024.
Contents
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- To THE MOST NOBLE AND ILLVSTRIOVS, IAMES, DUKE OF LENNOX, EARLE Darnley and Marche, Baron of Se∣trington, Treboulton and Methuen, LORD Great Chamberlane and Admirall of Scotland; Gentle∣man of his MAIESTIES Bedchamber; Knight of the most Noble order of the GARTER, and one of the most Honourable Privy COUN∣CELL, in both KINGDOMES.
- In PERSONI Polyanthea.
- Ad LECTOREM.
- In praeclara Davidis Personi gymnasmata.
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In Davidis Personi Lochlandij opera
seu de multifaria rerum varietate. - Of Persons Varieties.
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In DAVIDIS PERSONI Lochlandij
. Ad Iuventutem Nobilem . - Generoso & omnigenâ cum ingenij tum morum Nobilitate illustri Davidi Persono à Lochlands.
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In DAVIDIS PERSONI Lochlandij,
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A
TABLE OF THE
WHOLE BOOKE:
Wherein their severall Chapters,
with their Sections, and whole Con∣tents
are orderly pointed forth.
- The Table of the first Booke, Wherein the matter and nature of the Hea∣ven, Sunne, Moone, Starres, Ayre, Sea, and Earth is comprehended.
- A TABLE OF THE SE∣COND BOOKE.
- A TABLE OF THE Third Booke.
- A TABLE OF THE fourth Booke.
- A Table of the fifth Booke, Wherein the READER must con∣ceive, that the Page begins anew, and doth not follow the former computation.
- A Table of the principall Authors perused in the Contexture of this booke.
- TO THE READERS OF these Varieties.
- The Authors Friend to the Booke.
- To the curious Reader.
- ERRATA.
- The first Booke of Varieties. CONTAINING, A DISCOVRSE AND DISCOVERIE OF some of the Rarest and most Profi∣table secrets of naturall things, whether in Heaven, Aire, Sea, or Earth.
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- To THE MOST REVE∣REND FATHER IN GOD PATRICK, By the providence of God Archbi∣shop of Glasgow, Primate of Scot∣land, and one of his Majesties most Ho∣nourable Privy Councell, and Exchequer in that Kingdome, &c.
- OF METEORS, THE SECOND BOOKE.
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- TO THE RIGHT HO∣NOVRABLE THOMAS Earle of Hadington LORD Privy Seale of Scotland, and one of His Majesties most HONOURABLE Privy Counsell in both KINGDOMES.
- OF ARMIES AND BATTELLS: VVherein by the way our mo∣derne VVarfare, is compa∣red with the Old Roman. THE THIRD BOOKE.
- OF VARIETIES THE THIRD BOOKE. OF DVELS AND COMBATS.
- A TREATISE OF DEATH, And of diverse Orders and Ceremo∣nies of Burials.
- A TREATISE OF MENTALL-RESERVATION; And of no faith to bee kept unto Hereticks.
- A TREATISE OF LAVGHING AND MOVRNING.
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- TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, IOHN, Earle of Traquair, Lord Linton and Caberston; his MAIESTIES Treasurer Depute of Scotland, and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privie-Councell there.
- OF VARIETIES THE FOVRTH BOOKE, Of Curiosities, where the greatest Subtilities of all Sciences are some way un∣folded, and disapprooved; and some naturall Curiosities propounded, as of the Heavens, Aire, Seas, Earth, &c.
- OF DIVINE PHILOSOPHY, AND MANS FELICITY.
- THE CONSONANCIE AND agreement of the ancient Phi∣losophers, with our Chri∣stian Professours.
- OF SLEEPE AND DREAMES.
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- TO THE RIGHT Honourable, my noble good Lord, THOMAS Lord BINNING, &c.
- OF THE NVMBERS THREE and SEVEN.
- OF PRODIGIES AND MIRACLES: Which are true, which false.
- SALAMANDRA, OR A short Treatise of the PHILOSOPHERS STONE
- OF THE WORLD, Its Beginning, Frame, and Ending; At least the conjectu∣rall Ending.
- A GENERALL INTRODVCTION AND INCITEMENT To the studie of the METAPHYSICKS: Wherein the most excellent ends and uses thereof are illustrated, and how neces∣sary it is to be understood by Christians.