SECT. I.
ARTIC:
- 1 THe Visible Images of objects, substantial: and either corporeal Emanations from the superficial parts of Concretions; or Light it self, disposed into contextures, consimilar to the figure of the object.
- ibid,
- 2 The position of their being Effluviaes, derived from Epicurus; and praeferred to the common doctrine of the Schools of the Immateriality of Species Visible.
- ibid.
- 3 Epicurus Text concerning the same.
- 137
- 4 The faithful Exposition thereof.
- ibid.
- 5 The contents thereof reduced to four heads.
- 134
- 6 The Existence of Images visible, certifyed by autoptical Demonstration.
- ibid▪
- 7 Epicurus opinion, of the substantiality of Ima∣ges Visible, consonant to the judgement of Pla∣to and Empedocles.
- 139
- 8 The Aristoteleans Thesis, that Images optical are meer Accidents, recited: and
- ibid.
- 9 Convicted of sundry Impossibilities, Incon∣sistences, and Absurdities.
- ibid.
- 10 The grand Objection of Alexander, that a con tinual Efflux of substance must minorate the Quantity ••f the most solid Visible.
- 140
- 11 Solved by two Reasons; the possible Accreti∣on of other particles; and the extreme Tenui∣ty of the Emanent.
- 141
- 12 The Tenuity of Images visible, reduced to some degree of Comprehensibility, by conceiving them to be most thin Decortications.
- ibid.
- 13 By Instance, in the Visible species of the Foot of a Handworm.
- ibid.
- 14 By exemplifying in the numerous round Films of Wax, successively derepted from a Wax ta∣por by the flame thereof, in the space of an hour▪ and
- 142
- 15 In the innumerable Films of Oyl, likewise successively delibrated, by the flame of an El∣lychnium, or Match, perpendicularly floating in a vessel of equal capacity with Solomons Brazen Sea, in the space of 48 hours.
- ibid.
- 16 By the Analogy betwixt an Odorable and Vi∣sible Species.
- ibid.