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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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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"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 3, 2024.
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SECT. 5.
For three respects the Metaphysick is called the most
excellent Science, and the most necessary to be un∣derstood
by Christians.
BY these things which are said by Aristotle
in that chapter, and in other parts of his
workes, for the commendation of this Sci∣ence,
wee may see this Science to be most excellent
in three respects.
First, because of the universality and amplitude
of the object or subject of it; for in the Spheare or
circuite of it, all rankes, orders, and degrees of
things are comprehended, so that looke how farre
the knowledge of the whole celestiall Globe ex∣ceedeth
the knowledge of one constellation, and
the knowledge of the universall Mappe or table of
the whole Earth exceedeth in dignity the know∣ledge
of the Mappe of one Province or Countrey,
as farre doth Metaphysick (which is as it were one
universall Carde or Mappe, presenting to our view
all rankes, orders, and degrees of beeing) exceede