Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.

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Title: Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
Author: Etten, Hendrick van.
Publication: Printed at London :: By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery Lane, neere the Rowles,; 1633.
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Subject terms: Science -- Early works to 1800.; Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the increase of Cod-fish, Carpes, &c.

FIftly, if there be any creatures in the world that doth abound with increase or fertilitie, it may be rightly attributed to fish; for they in their kindes produce such a great multitude of egges, and brings forth so many little ones, that if a great part were not destroyed continually, within a little while they would fill all the Sea, Ponds, and Rivers in the world; and it is easie to shew how it would come so to passe, onely by supposing them to increase without taking or destroying them for the space of 10 or 12 yeares: having regard to the soliditie of the waters which are allotted for to lodge and con∣taine these creatures, as their bounds and place of rest to live in.