Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.

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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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London :: Printed for J. Kirton ...,
1659.
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Latin language -- Readers.
Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
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The Chanels & Bones

The Chanels of the body are, the Veins, carying the blood from the Liver;

The Arteries carrying heat and life from the heart;

The Nerves carrying sense and motion, throughout the body, from the brain.

You shall find these three 1. every where joyned to∣gether. Besides, from yt mouth

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into the stomach is the Gullet 2. the way of the meat and drink: and by it to the lights the Wezand 5. for breathing: from the stomach to the arse s a great Gut. 3. to Purge out the Ordure; from the Liver, to the Bladdec, the Ureter 4. for making water.

The Bones are, in the Head, the Skull, 6. the two Cheek-bones 7. with thirty two Teeth, 8.

Then the back-bone, 9 the Pillar of the body, consisting of thirty four turning-joynts, that the body may bend it self.

The Ribs, 10. whereof there are XXIV.

The Breast-bone, 11. the two Shoulder-blades, 12 The Buttock-bone, 13. the bigger Bone in the Arm, 15. and the lesser-bone, in the Arm, the Thigh-bone, 14. the foremost, 16. and the hindmost Bone, in the Leg, 17.

The bones of the Hand 18. are thirty four, and of the Foot, 19. thirty.

The Marrow s in the Bones.

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