Another collection of philosophical conferences of the French virtuosi upon questions of all sorts for the improving of natural knowledg made in the assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most ingenious persons of that nation / render'd into English by G. Havers, Gent. & J. Davies ..., Gent.

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Another collection of philosophical conferences of the French virtuosi upon questions of all sorts for the improving of natural knowledg made in the assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most ingenious persons of that nation / render'd into English by G. Havers, Gent. & J. Davies ..., Gent.

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Bureau d'adresse et de rencontre (Paris, France)

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London :: Printed for Thomas Dring and John Starkey and are to be sold at their shops ...,

1665.

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Contents

• title page
• imprimatur
• PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS:
• CONFERENCE CI. I. Of Sleep, and how long it ought to be. II. Which is the strongest thing in the World.
• CONFERENCE CII. I. Of the Gowt. II. Which Condition is most expedient for the acquisition of Wisedom, Riches or Poverty?
• CONFERENCE CIII. I. Of Glass. II. Of Fucusses, or Cosmeticks.
• CONFERENCE CIV. I. Of Tobacco. II. Whether the Invention of Guns hath done more hurt than good.
• CONFERENCE CV. I. Of Blood-letting. II. Which is the most Excel∣lent of the Soul's three Faculties, Imagina∣tion, Memory, or Judgment.
• CONFERENCE CVI. I. Of Dew. II. Whether it be expedient for Women to be Learned?
• CONFERENCE CVII. I. Whether it be good to use Chymical Remedies? II. Whether the Reading of Romances be profitable?
• CONFERENCE CVIII. I. Of Talismans. II. Whether a Country-life or a City-life is to be preferr'd?
• CONFERENCE CIX. I. Of Volcano's or Subterranean Fires. II. Which Age is most desirable.
• CONFERENCE CX. I. Of Mineral Waters. II. Whether it be better to give than to receive?
• CONFERENCE CXI. I. Of Antidotes. II. Which is most communicative, Good or Evil.
• CONFERENCE CXII. I. Why Animals cry when they feel Pain? II. Whether it be expedient to have Enemies?
• CONFERENCE CXIII. I. Of the Iris, or Rain-bow. II. Whether the Reading of Books is a fitter way for Learning than Vocal Instructions?
• CONFERENCE CXIIII. I. Of the Milky-Way. II. Which is most powerful, Gold or Iron?
• CONFERENCE CXV. I. Of the cause of Vapours. II. Which is less culpa∣ble, Rashness or Cowardice?
• CONFERENCE CXVI. Which Climate is most proper for Long-life? (The second Question is remitted to the next Conference; and 'tis Resolved for divers Reasons, that hereafter but one be handled at a time.)
• CONFERENCE CXVII. Which is most necessary to a State, and most noble, Phy∣sick or Law?
• CONFERENCE CXVIII. Of Sea-sickness.
• CONFERENCE CXIX. Of Love by Inclination, or Sympathy.
• CONFERENCE CXX. How the Ʋnderstanding moves the Will.
• CONFERENCE CXXI. Whence come the Marks or Spots wherewith Children are born?
• CONFERENCE CXXII. Of the Original of Forms.
• CONFERENCE CXXIII. Whether Lean people are more healthy, and long-liv'd then Fat.
• CONFEERNCE CXXIV. Whether we may better trust one whom we have oblig'd, or one that hath oblig'd us.
• CONFERENCE CXXV. Of the Causes of Freezing and Thawing.
• CONFERENCE CXXVI. Of the Causes of the Small Pox.
• CONFERENCE CXXVII. Whether we profit best by Precepts or Examples.
• CONFERENCE CXXVIII. Of Incubi and Succubae; and whether Devils can generate.
• CONFERENCE CXXIX. Which Animal is happiest, according to Nature.
• CONFERENCE CXXX. Whether is better, that Men have many Wives, or Women many Husbands.
• CONFERENCE CXXXI. Of the manner of Accretion.
• CONFERENCE CXXXII. Whether the Dinner or Supper ought to be largest.
• CONFERENCE CXXIII. Which of the Humane Passions is most excusable.
• CONFERENCE CXXXIV. Which is the most laudable Temperament.
• CONFERENCE CXXXV. Of Happiness and Ʋnhappiness; and whether men are Happy or Ʋnhappy, because they really are so, or be∣cause they think themselves so.
• CONFERENCE CXXXVI. Of the Original of Precious Stones.
• CONFERENCE CXXXVII. Of the Generation of Metals.
• CONFERENCE CXXXVIII. Whether there be an Elementary Fire, other than the Sun.
• CONFERENCE CXXXIX. Which is most desirable, long or short Life.
• CONFERENCE CXL. Of the Lethargy.
• CONFERENCE CXLI. Whether it be better to marry, or not to marry.
• CONFERENCE CXLII. At what time the Rational Soul is infus'd.
• CONFERENCE CXLIII. Of Metempsychosis, or Transmigration of Souls.
• CONFERENCE CXLIV. Whether there were braver Men in any preceding Age, than in the present.
• CONFERENCE CXLV. Of the Serene, which is a hurtful Dew falling in Summer Evenings.
• CONFERENCE CXLVI. Whether the French are Light and Inconstant; and why?
• CONFERENCE CXLVII. Of the sundry Motions of the Sea and Rivers.
• CONFERENCE CXLVIII. Whether is better, to Love, or to be Lov'd.
• CONFERENCE CXLIX. Of Hair.
• CONFERENCE CL. VVhether Alterations of States have natural Causes.
• CONFERENCE CLI. Which is more healthful, to become warm by the Fire or by Exercise.
• CONFERENCE CLII. Whether Wine helps or hinders Digestion, and why?
• CONFERENCE CLIII. Why 'tis colder at Day-break than at any other time of the Night or Day.
• CONFERENCE CLIV. Whence the whiteness of Snow proceeds.
• CONFERENCE CLV. Whether Courage be natural or acquir'd.
• CONFERENCE CLVI. Whether Men, not having learn' d of others, would would frame Language to themselves.
• CONFERENCE CLVII. Whether is better, to guard the Frontier, or carry the War into the Enemies Country.
• CONFERENCE CLVIII. Whence diversity of Opinion proceeds.
• CONFERENCE CLIX. Why there is more Wind at Sea than at Land.
• CONFERENCE CLIX. Whether it be easier to procure obedience by Gentleness then by Terrour.
• CONFERENCE CLX. Whether Trading derogate from Gentility.
• CONFERENCE CLXI. Why the French are so much incensed with the Lye.
• CONFERENCE CLXII. Why every one thinks himself well enough provided with Wit; and some, better than others.
• CONFERENCE CLXIII. How Animals are bred of Putrefaction.
• CONFERENCE CLXIIII. Of Zoophytes or Plant-Animals.
• CONFERENCE CLXV. Of Trubbs or Truffs, and Mushroms.
• CONFERENCE CLXVI. Which is to be preferred, Company or Solitude?
• CONFERENCE CLXVII. Whether Birds, or four-footed Animals, or Fishes be most Intelligent.
• CONFERENCE CLXVIII. What is the cause of the Crisis of Diseases.
• CONFERENCE CLXIX. What Bodily Exercise is the most healthful.
• CONFERENCE CLXX. Whether Vertue consist in Mediocrity.
• CONFERENCE CLXXI. Whether the Imagination be able to produce and cure Diseases.
• CONFERENCE CLXXII. Of Fascination, or Bewitching.
• CONFERENCE CLXXIII. Of Amulets; and whether Diseases are curable by Words, Tickets, or other things hang'd at the Neck, or applyed to the body of the Diseased.
• CONFERENCE CLXXIV. Whether Fruition diminishes Love.
• CONFERENCE CLXXV. Whether 'twere better to know all that men now know, or all that they ignore.
• CONFERENCE CLXXVI. Whether Musick doth more hurt or good.
• CONFERENCE CLXXVII. Whether Barrenness is most commonly tht fault of Hus∣bands or of Wives.
• CONFERENCE CLXXVIII. Whether Complaisance proceeds from Magnanimity or Poorness of Spirit.
• CONFERENCE CLXXIX. Touching the means of re-establing Commerce.
• CONFERENCE CLXXIX. What are the most common Causes of Law-suits; and why they are more now than heretofore.
• CONFERENCE CLXXX. Whether more hurt or good hath proceeded from sharing the parts of Physick between Physitians, Apothecaries, and Chirurgions.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXI. Whether there be any Real Evil besides Pain.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXII. Whether Man be the most diseas'd of all Creatures, and why?
• CONFERENCE CLXXXIII. Of the Greenness of Plants.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXIV. Of the Cold of the middle Region of the Air.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXV. Of the Generation of Males and Females.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXVI. Whether the French Tongue be sufficient for learning all the Sciences.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXVII. Of diversity of Colours in one and the same subject.
• CONFERENCE CLXXXVIII. Whether we are more perspicacious in the Affairs of others, or our own, and why?
• CONFERENCE CLXXXIX. Of the Original of Mountains.
• CONFERENCE CXC. Whence proceed good and bad Gestures, Gracefulness and ill Aspects.
• CONFERENCE CXCI. Which is most proper for Study, the Evening or the Morning.
• CONFERENCE CXCII. Who are the most Ingenious of the World.
• CONFERENCE CXCIII. Of the Fraternity of the Rosie-Cross.
• CONFERENCE CXCIV. What Paracelsus meant by the Book M.
• CONFERENCE CXCV. Of the Art of Raimond Lully.
• CONFERENCE CXCVI. Why a Needle touch'd by a Loadstone turns toward the North?
• CONFERENCE CXCVII. What Sect of Philosophers is most to be follow'd.
• CONFERENCE CXCVIII. Why Mules breed not.
• CONFERENCE CXCIX. Of the Mandrake.
• CONFERENCE CC. Of Panick Fear.
• CONFERENCE CCI. Of the Water-drinker of S. Germain's Fair.
• CONFERENCE CCII. Why dead Bodies bleed in the presence of their Murderers.
• CONFERENCE CCIII. Of the Ʋnicorn.
• CONFERENCE CCIV. Of Satyrs.
• CONFERENCE CCV. Of the Phoenix.
• CONFERENCE CCVI. Of Sensitive Plants.
• CONFERENCE CCVII. Of the Bezoar.
• CONFERENCE CCVIII. Whence proceeds the sudden Death of Men and Animals upon descending into certain Pits.
• CONFERENCE CCIX. Whether a Dead Body can be preserv'd naturally many years.
• CONFERENCE CCX. Of the Remora.
• CONFERENCE CCXI. Of Negroes.
• CONFERENCE CCXII. Of Ecstacies.
• CONFERENCE CCXIII. Of the Cock, and whether the Lyon be frightned at his Crowing.
• CONFERENCE CCXIV. Of the Sibyls.
• CONFERENCE CCXV. Whether of two Bodies of different weight, the one descends faster than the other, and why?
• CONFERENCE CCXVI. Of the Silk-worm.
• CONFERENCE CCXVII. Why Ice being harder than Water is yet lighter.
• CONFERENCE CCXVIII. Of Masks, and whether it be lawful for any to disguise themselves.
• CONFERENCE CCXIX. Of Fables and Fictions, and whether their conve∣niences or inconviences be greater?
• CONFERENCE CCXX. Whether it be better to go to bed late, and rise betimes in the Morning; or do the contrary.
• CONFERENCE CCXXI. Whether the Child derives more from the Father, or the Mother.
• CONFERENCE CCXXII. Whether is harder, for a Vertuous Man to do that which is Evil; or for a Vicious to do that which is Good.
• CONFERENCE CCXXIII. Whether a piece of Iron laid upon the Cask prevents Thunder from marring Wine contain'd within it, and why?
• CONFERENCE CCXXIV. Of Stage-Plays; and whether they be advantageous to a State, or not?
• CONFERENCE CCXXV. Whether that Temperament of the Body which conduces most to Health, be also the most convenient for the Mind.
• CONFERENCE CCXXVI. Whether it be more expedient for a Man to have only one Friend or many.
• CONFERENCE CCXXVII. Of Oracles.
• CONFERENCE CCXXVIII. Of the Tingling of the Ears.
• CONFERENCE CCXXIX. Of Philtres, and whether there be any proper Remedies for the procuring of Love.
• CONFERENCE CCXXX. Of Atoms.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXI. Whether the King's Evil may be cur'd by the touching of a Seventh Son, and why?
• CONFERENCE CCXXXII. Of Conjuration.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXIII. Of Natural Magick.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXIV. Of the Moles and Marks appearing in the Face.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXV. Of Auguries and Auspices.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXVI. Whether those Children who are born with Cawls about their whole or some parts of their Bodies are always for∣tunate, and why?
• CONFERENCE CCXXXVII. Of Antiperistasis.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXVIII. Of the Sympathetical Powder.
• CONFERENCE CCXXXIX. Whether there be any such Creatures as the Ancients con∣ceiv'd the Satyrs to be?
• CONFERENCE CCXL. Whether it be better to bury or to burn the bodies of the Dead?