Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.

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Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.

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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.

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London :: Printed by A. Maxwell ...,

1666.

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Contents

• title page
• TO HER GRACE THE Duchess of Newcastle, On her OBSERVATIONS upon EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
• TO HIS GRACE THE Duke of Newcastle.
• TO THE MOST FAMOUS UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDG.
• THE PREFACE TO THE ENSUING TREATISE.
• TO THE READER.
• AN Argumental Discourse
• THE TABLE OF All the Principal Subjects contained and discoursed of in this BOOK.
• A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE WORKS Hitherto Published by the AUTHORESSE.
• OBSERVATIONS UPON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
  • 1. Of Humane Sense and Perception.
  • 2. Of Art, and Experimental Philosophy.
  • 3. Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Mul∣tiplying Glasses.
  • 4. Of the Production of Fire by a Flint and Steel.
  • 5. Of Pores.
  • 6. Of the Effluvium's of the Loadstone.
  • 7. Of the Stings of Nettles and Bees.
  • 8. Of the beard of a wild Oat.
  • 9. Of the Eyes of Flies.
  • 10. Of a Butter-flie.
  • 11. Of the Walking Motions of Flies, and other Crea∣tures.
  • Whether it be possible to make Man and other Ani∣mal Creatures that naturally have no Wings, flie as Birds do.
  • 13. Of Snails and Leeches, and whether all Animals have blood.
  • 14. Of Natural Productions.
  • 15. Of the Seeds of Vegetables.
  • 16. Of the Providence of Nature, and of some Opi∣nions concerning Motion.
  • 17. Des Cartes Opinion of Motion examined.
  • 18. Of the blackness of a Charcoal, and of Light.
  • 19. Of the Pores of a Charcoal, and of Emptiness.
  • 20. Of Colours.
  • 21. Whether an Idea haue a Colour, and of the Idea of a Spirit.
  • 22. Of Wood Petrified.
  • 23. Of the Nature of Water.
  • 24. Of Salt, and of Sea- or Salt-water.
  • 25. Of the Motions of Heat and Cold.
  • 26. Of the Measures, Degrees, and different sorts of Heat and Cold.
  • 27. Of Congealation and Freezing.
  • 28. Of Thawing or dissolving of Frozen bodies.
  • 29. Several Questions resolved concerning Cold, and Frozen Bodies, &c.
  • 30. Of Contraction and Dilation.
  • 31. Of the Parts of Nature, and of Atomes.
  • 32. Of the Celestial Parts of this World; and whether they be alterable?
  • 33. Of the substance of the Sun, and of Fire.
  • 34. Of Telescopes.
  • 35. Of Knowledg and Perception in General.
  • 36. Of the different Perceptions of Sense and Rea∣son.
  • 37. Several Questions and Answers concerning Know∣ledg and Perception.
• FURTHER OBSERVATIONS UPON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, Reflecting withal upon some Principal Subjects in CONTEMPLATIVE PHILOSOPHY.
  • 1. Ancient Learning ought not to be exploded, nor the Experimental part of Philosophy preferred before the Speculative.
  • 2. Whether Artificial Effects may be called Natural, and in what sense.
  • 3. Of Natural Matter and Motion.
  • 4. Nature cannot be known by any of her Parts.
  • 5. Art cannot introduce new forms in Nature.
  • 6. Whether there be any Prime or Principal Figures in Nature, and of the true Principles of Na∣ture.
  • 7. Whether Nature be self-moving.
  • 8. Of Animal Spirits.
  • 9. Of the Doctrine of the Scepticks concerning the Knowledg of Nature.
  • 10. Of Natural Sense and Reason.
  • 11. Of a General Knowledg and Worship of God, given him by all Natural Creatures.
  • 12. Of a Particular Worship of God, given him by those that are his chosen and elect People.
  • 13. Of the Knowledg of Man.
  • 14. A Natural Philosopher cannot be an Atheist.
  • 15. Of the Rational Soul of Man.
  • 16. Whether Animal Parts separated from their Bo∣dies have Life.
  • 17. Of the Splene.
  • 18. Of Anatomy.
  • 19. Of preserving the Figures of Animal Creatures.
  • 20. Of Chymistry and Chymical Principles.
  • 21. Of the Universal Medicine, and of Diseases.
  • 22. Of Outward Remedies.
  • 23. Of several sorts of Drink, and Meat.
  • 24. Of Fermentation.
  • 25. Of the Plague.
  • 26. Of Respiration.
• OBSERVATIONS UPON THE OPINIONS OF SOME Ancient Philosophers.
  • 1. Vpon the Principles of Thales.
  • 2. Some few Observations on Plato's Doctrine.
  • 3. Upon the Doctrine of Pythagoras.
  • 4. Of Epicurus his Principles of Philosophy.
  • 5. On Aristotle's Philosophical Principles.
  • 6. Of Scepticisme, and some other Sects of the An∣cient.
• AN EXPLANATION OF Some obscure and doubtful passages occurring in the Philosophical Works, hitherto published BY THE AUTHORESSE.
• title page
• TO THE DUCHESSE OF NEWCASTLE, ON HER New Blazing World.
• TO THE READER.
• THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WORLD, CALLED The Blazing World.
• THE EPILOGUE TO THE READER.