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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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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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Science -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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 30, 2025.

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SECT. 1.

Treating briefly of Numbers in generall.

GOD at the Creation is said to have made all things in number, weight, and mea∣sure, as indeede they were in a most exact order, sym∣metrie and proportion.

Antiquity have remarked many things by severall Numbers, as Pierus in his Hierogliphicks at length

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relateth,* 1.1 Pythagoras is said to have esteemed much of the number of five, as composed of the first even and odde, numbers two and three:

Numero Deus impare gaudet.

Severall men have severally treated of severall numbers, but I have here made choyce of three and seven,* 1.2 as finding maniest and most memorable things in all Sciences comprehended within them; which thus pack't up together, cannot but bee infi∣nitely delightfull, and most helpefull to the memo∣ry of every Reader.

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