An anatomical lecture of man, or, A map of the little world, delineated in essayes and characters by Samuell Person ...

Nemo.

NEmo is a negative; I will affirm, that Nemo potest omnia; Nemo is very wise, Nemo omnibus horis sapit; Though Nemo have no real existence, yea, we may have some confused notions of such non entitis, and have a Platonick Idea of him in our minds; many may wonder at this strange Chimaera, that never was, nor is, nor will be; but will suppose he is onely a Chimaera of our brain: The Poets have attributed much to this Nemo; he like Esops fellow servant, can do all things, then he leaves nothing for others to do; all blame and accusations are laid upon poore Nemoe's back; but that we may come to the knowledg of Nemo, we will dive into the Abysse, and see if we can finde him there; then with our fancies we will rove into that spatium imaginari∣um,

that imaginary place beyond world and Heavens, and we will fly into all Democritus's worlds; and we will fly to the Moon, and see if the opinions of the new Phylosophers be true, that there is a world there, and see whether that thing in the moon, that represents a man, whether it be so or not, and if it be no man, Nemo then I will cry out with Archimedes, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, I have found him, I have found him; Nemo is some non-entity, he dwels in Sir Thomas Moores Utopia, and has his habitation, in terra incognita Magellanica; Nemo sure∣ly is something spiritual, for we use to define spiritual things negatively, and tells what they are not, rather then what they are; I think it would puzle the Delphick Oracles to declare Nemo unto us.