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AN APPENDIX,
Pointing at some of the chief Authors of this, and the foregoing Ages. By Authors, here are meant, those that are really such, and the first Inventors of any useful piece of Knowledge.
READER,
THou mayest rest satisfied with this very short and imperfect account of some of the chief new Inventions, either of this, or of the past Ages, since I design, at more leisure, to write a larger Treatise of this Subject, as likewise to set down the particular times every thing was Printed in, that so the unjust deal∣ing both of Domestick and Foreign Transcri∣bers, who have so often stolen the greatest, or (at least) the best part of their Writings from