Examen de ingenios, or, The tryal of wits discovering the great difference of wits among men, and what sort of learning suits best with each genius / published originally in Spanish by Doctor Juan Huartes ; and made English from the most correct edition by Mr. Bellamy.

Title

Examen de ingenios, or, The tryal of wits discovering the great difference of wits among men, and what sort of learning suits best with each genius / published originally in Spanish by Doctor Juan Huartes ; and made English from the most correct edition by Mr. Bellamy.

Author

Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.

Publication

London :: Printed for Richard Sare ...,

1698.

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Subject terms

Genius.

Ability.

Psychology -- Early works to 1850.

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Contents

• title page
• To the RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGƲE, Chancellor of His MAJESTY's Exchequer, One of the Lords of the Treasury, and a Member of His MAJESTY's Most Honourable Privy Council.
• TO THE READER.
• TO His Catholic Majesty.
• THE PROEM.
• The Author's Supplement to the foregoing Proem.
• A Table of the CHAPTERS and ARTICLES.
• Authors made use of in this WORK.
• ERRATA.
• THE TRYAL OF WITS, &c.
  • CHAP. I. What Wit is, and what Differences of it are ordinarily observ'd among Men.
  • CHAP. II. The Differences amongst Men unqualified for Science.
  • CHAP. III. The Child who has neither Wit nor Abi∣lity requisite to the intended Science, cannot prove a great Proficient, though he have the best Masters, many Books, and should labour at it all the Days of his Life.
  • CHAP. IV. Nature only qualifies a Man for Learning.
  • CHAP. V. What Power the Temperament has to make a Man Wise and good Na∣tured.
  • CHAP. VI. What Part of the Body ought to be well Tempered, that the Child may be Witty.
  • CHAP. VII. That the Vegetative, Sensitive, and Ra∣tional Soul are knowing, without be∣ing directed by Teachers, when they meet with a Temperament agreeable to their Operations.
  • CHAP. VIII. From these three Qualities alone, Heat, Moisture, and Driness, proceed all the differences of Wit observ'd among Men.
  • CHAP. IX. Some Doubts and Arguments against the Doctrin of the last Chapter, with their Answers.
  • CHAP. X. Each Difference of Wit is appropriated to the Science with which it most particu∣larly agrees, removing what is Repug∣nant or contrary to it.
  • CHAP. XI. That Eloquence and Politeness of Speech are not to be found in Men of great Understanding.
  • CHAP. XII. That the Theory of Divinity belongs to the Understanding, and Preaching (which is the Practic) to the Imagi∣nation.
  • CHAP. XIII. That the Theory of the Laws pertains to the Memory; Pleading Causes and Judging them (which is the Practic) to the Understanding; and Governing of a Commonwealth, to the Imagination.
  • CHAP. XIV. That the Theory of Physic belongs part to the Memory, and part to the Under∣standing; and the Practice, to the Ima∣gination.
  • CHAP. XV. To what Difference of Wit the Art-Mili∣tary belongs, and by what Marks the Man may be known, who has it.
  • CHAP. XVI. To what difference of Ability the Office of a King belongs, and what Marks he ought to have that has this Kind of Wit.
  • CHAP. XVII. In what manner Parents may beget wise Children, and of a Wit fit for Learn∣ing.
    • Article I. By what Marks the Degrees of Heat and Dryness are to be discover∣ed in each Man.
    • Article II. What Women ought to Marry with what Men, to have Children.
    • Article III. What Considerations to be used to get Boys and not Girls.
    • Article IV. What is to be observed that the Children may prove Witty and Wise.
    • Article V. Rules to be observ'd to preserve Wit in Children after they are Born.