Part I.

THALES.
jHut. di plac. phll. 1. i3.
« Pint de plnc.phil. 1 p Pint, di
'> Pint. de. pLc. phil. 2. j 3. Achil Tut. lug In Ay at,
‘ Dt" cj?/o.
Tliat //? f/jp Wor/d there k no vacuum^ in which ( as Flutorch obferves) all Philofophers agree, who affirm the World to be animated, and go¬ vern’d by providence ^ the contrary defended by thole who maintain that it confilfeth of Atoms,’ is inanimate, not governed by pro¬ vidence.
That ” matter k fluid and variable.
That p Bodies cue pajflble and deviflble.^ in pL phil r. 16. infinitum-^ andcontimious an are alfo aline .^fitperji- c/d’r, place and time.
That 1 Mijlion is made by compofaion of the Elements.
That ‘ the Stars are earthly.^ yet fiery 3 » the Sun earthly. They who ajfirni the Stars to be ^'1 laith ' Arijlotle.^ hold Jo.^ as conceiving the
28? t’ohole Jlipcrior Body to be Eire.
*' Pint, de That the Moon is of the fame nature with the pl'-c. phil. 3. 5». Sun., that Jhe is illuminated by him., Flutarch., and Stobjeus affirm this to be firft held by Thales, though Eudemus cited by Theon afcribe it to An¬ aximander.
That the monthly occulations of the Moon are caufed by the nearnefs of the Sun Jhining round her.
That there is but “ one earth, round, in jafhion of a Globe, ^ feated in t he midji of the IF or Id, to which relates that fpeech afcribed to him by Cleodemus, that, if the earth were taken out of the World, there mujl of necejjity follow a con- fufion of all things.
Tliat the overflowing of Nilus is caufed by the Eteflan ( yearly ) winds, which rife with the Dog-lfar, after the fummer Solftice, and begin- ^ Meteor. 2. 6. ning the blow from the North, Ipread ( as ^ Ariflotle deferibes them ) into remote quarters. T'hefe ( faith Flutarch ) blowing direllly againjl ./iFgypt, caufe the water to fwell, that the Sea driven by thefe winds, entereth. within the mouth of that River, andhindereth it, that it cannot dif charge it Je/J freely into the Sea, hut is repulfed. Whereupon ( adds Diodorus Siculus ) it over- Jiowes ^gypt, which lieth low and level. But this reafon, though it Jeem plaufihle,iscafily dif proved-, for if this zee re true, all the Rivers which are dif- charged into the Sea, oppofile to the Eteflan winds, floould have the fame overflowing. Thus DW nus in his excellent Difeourfe upon this Subie£f, which concludes with the opinion of Agathar- chides that it is occafion’dby rain, coming from the mountains Ethiopia.
C H A P. VII. Of his Gcometty.
Pint... de plac. phil. 3. io.
“ Pint, de plac. phil. 3 11.
* Sept, fap, conviv.
* Luert.
Lib, 1.
Idortd. lib, 4. Laert. vit. Py- thag.
■* De vita I'ytbug.