Academiarum examen, or, The examination of academies wherein is discussed and examined the matter, method and customes of academick and scholastick learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open : as also some expedients proposed for the reforming of schools, and the perfecting and promoting of all kind of science ... / by Jo. Webster.

Title

Academiarum examen, or, The examination of academies wherein is discussed and examined the matter, method and customes of academick and scholastick learning, and the insufficiency thereof discovered and laid open : as also some expedients proposed for the reforming of schools, and the perfecting and promoting of all kind of science ... / by Jo. Webster.

Author

Webster, John, 1610-1682.

Publication

London :: Printed for Giles Calvert ...,

1654.

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Subject terms

Education, Higher -- Early works to 1800.

Learning and scholarship.

Universities and colleges -- Great Britain.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable Major General LAMBERT.
• To all that truly love the Advance∣ment of Learning in the Universities of Cam∣bridge and Oxford, or elsewhere.
• Sagacissimo et doctissimo Viro Jo∣hanni Websterio carmen Acrosticon et Encomiasticon.
• To the Reader concerning this Book, and his Worthy Friend, the Composer of it.
• The Contents.
• ACADEMIARUM EXAMEN, OR THE EXAMINATION OF ACADEMIES.
  • CHAP. I. Of the general ends of erecting publick Schools.
  • CHAP. II. Of the division of Academick learning, and first of that called School-Theology.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Division of that which the Schools call Humane Learning, and first of Tongues or Languages.
  • CHAP. IV. Of Logick.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Mathematical Sciences.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Scholastick Philosophy.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Politicks, Oeco∣nomicks, Poesie, and Oratory.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of their Customes, and Methode.
  • CHAP. IX. Of some expedients, or remedies in Theolo∣gie, Grammar, Logick, and Mathema∣ticks.
  • CHAP. X. Of some helps in Natural Philosophy.
  • CHAP. XI. Some Expedients concerning their Custome, and Method.