LESSON XIX.
Of the Objects of the Senses.
1. LAstly, it appears, wherein consists the being Objects of Sense: for, Touchable things, 'tis plain, are the first Qualities, or those which are im∣mediately
Peripateticall institutions. In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent.
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deriv'd from them: Tastable things, conformable to nature, are Sweets; and must necessarily consist, as the nature it self does, in a moderate heat and moi∣sture, or, of the degree proper to the Ani∣mal.
2. From this temper, other Savours in∣cline, too much, towards cold and heat, or moisture and drynesse: as salt, sharp and bitter things tast too much of heat; re∣stringent, crabbed, of cold; sour, bitter and sharp, of drynesse; insipid, of moi∣sture. Proportion'd to this is the account of Smells.
3. Sounding things are dry and trem∣bling, which are easily wav'd up and down: but, soft things hinder Sound.
4. Since Colours strike the Eye, their na∣ture must consist in a vertue to reflect Light; that is, in a density & constipation of parts, and in having a many-corner'd fi∣gure: And these commonly favour of cold and drynesse; and their opposites, of moisture and heat.
5. Lastly, Light it self (and dilated flame, if wee'l suppose it repell'd from the Object to the Eyes, must necessarily doe the same as Light) will represent the figure of a thing by intershadow'd stroaks up∣on
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the Organ, and strike, more or lesse, ac∣cording to the nature of that which re∣flects it: if it passe through a triangular glasse, it will receive and carry to the Eye the same varieties, that is, differences of Colours.
6. But, that light, too, does those things which are proper to fire, (viz. to dry, to burn, to be reflected, refracted, collected, dispers'd, produced and extin∣guisht,) is so clear, that it cannot be doub∣ted but light is fire.
7. Nor imports it against this, That it seems to be mov'd in an instant, That it fills the whole Aire, That it penetrates so∣lid bodies, as glasse, &c. for, these things seem so only, through the defect of our Senses; which perceive not its motion, nor those little spaces by which the Aire is se∣parated from the light, nor the pores of those bodies through which it passes.