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§. 8. (Book 8)
I trust then that this speculation and pra∣ctise will in time be thought of, and that it may, I will set this signature upon it (al∣though seldome or scarce ever noted by any except by Friar Bacon in his Booke de Caelo & mundo, &c. More especially by that incom∣parable sage Alkinaus, the most learned man that the East since his time, or long before hath brought forth unto the world: that every thing hath his radios proprios, as well as the starres of Heaven have: Alkindus his wordes are these, in his Treatise de radijs, as a firme conclusion, and sufficiently there by him confirmed; Agite ergo cum mundus Elementaris sit exemplum mundi, it a quod quae∣libet res in ipso contenta ipsius speciem continet. Manifestum est quod omnis res huj us mundt sive sit substantia, sive accidens, radios facit suo modo ad instar siderum, alioquin figuram mundi syderci ad plenum non haberet. But this we will ma∣nifest to the sense in some few (saith hee) the fire transmitteth his beames to a certaine distance: the earth sends out her beames of colde, of medicine, and of health; and me∣dicines taken into the body, or outwardly applied, diffuse their beames through the wholebody of him that receives them: the collision of solid bodies makes a sound which diffuseth it selfe by the beames of the thing