Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / by D. Abercromby ...

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Title: Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / by D. Abercromby ...
Author: Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.
Publication: London :: Printed by H.C. for J. Taylor, L. Meredith, T. Bennet, R. Wilde ...,; 1687.
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Sect. XVIII. Metaphysick.

THis Science considers Beings, as abstracted from all matter; and is so called, because it treats of things somewhat besides, above, or beyond Na∣ture. It considereth two things in a Being, 1. Its Essence, which seems to have a real Being, though it does not exist, as a Rose in the midst of Winter. 2. Its Existence, which is actually in being, or by which a thing is actually in being, as the existence of a Rose is that by which it now is.

It considereth three properties of every Being, its Unity, Goodness, and Truth; Unity is that by which a thing is one, and not many. Truth or Verity, is the conformity of any thing to its real or consistent Principles, as true Gold con∣sists in its conformity to the principles of

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this Metal. The Metaphysical Goodness of things, is that essential perfection which is agreeable to them.

This Science treats likewise of Powers, Acts, Principles, and Causes, and proves, in opposition to Aristotle, and other an∣cient Philosophers, that the World was not eternal.

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Aristotle, Vasques, Suares, Va∣lentia, &c.