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He calls the Heat and /£ther, Jupiter ; the Air, vital the Earth, Pluto; the Water,
.. , and the Mortal Fountain, Laertius cites it thus :
fVhite]o\Qf and vital ]\ino, PlutO then,
^nd Nefiis^iT/;»^ tears to tlo eyes of men.
The Fire, faith he, he calls jw/JrVer; the Earth, Juno; the Air, Pluto, the Water, Nf/if. Thefe are in an inceffant mutation, whereby there is fuch an eternal produdion of things ; whence he adds, •
Sometimes hy Friendfisip ail are knit in one j Sometimes by DiJ cord Jever^d and undone.
b Hut. (U) Before the four Elements, there are cer- pl. I. I?, tain lefs fragments, (c) as it were Elements of cstoh. Eel £igjyient5, of fimilar parts, and round, d plut.^’^' ( The World is one ; the World is not the
pi. 1. 5. Univerfe, but a little part of the Univerfe ; the ■ reft is fluggirti matter.
c.Plut. 1. (^e) Nature isnothingbut the mixture and fe-
3°* paratibn of the Elements ; for fo he faith in the firftof his Phyficks:
H'e otberwife ; therd's no fuch thing at all .As that ’which Mortals Death or Nature cad.
To Mixtion and Difererion ad "we o’we.
On which the names of Nature men befiow.
(f) The World is circumferibed by the circu¬ lation of the Sun, and that is the bound of it.
The right fide of the World is that which is towards the Summer Tropick, the left that which is towards the Winter Tropick.
(hj He, as all thofe who held the World to be made of little bodies, introduced Concreti¬ ons and Diferetions, but deny'd Generation and Corruption, faying. That compounds are hot made by quality and alteration, but by quanti¬ ty and coagmentation.
(i) Heaven is folid, being made of air con¬ dens’d by fire, likeCryftal ; itcontaineth a fiery and aerial nature in both'Hernifpheres.
(k) The Stars are fiery, confifting of that fire which the yEther containing in it felf, ftruck forth in its firft fecretion.
(/) The fixed Stars are faftned to the Cryftal of the Heavens, the Planets are loofe.
(m) The Sun is a great heap of fire, bigger than the Moon.
(w) There are two Suns, one an archetypal
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n Plut. 2. 20.
fire in the other Hemifphere of the World, fil¬ ling this Hemifphere, which is continually op- polite to its fplendor. As for that which we fee, it is the light in that other Hemifphere, re- plenifhed with'air, mixed with heat; and the fame is occafioned by refradion from the Earth, thatis more round, entringinto the Sun, which is of a Chryftaline nature , and yet is trained and carried away together with the motion of that fire. But to fpeak more plainly and di- ftindly, this is as much as to fay, The Sun is nothing elfe, but the reflexion of that light of the fire which is about the Earth.
(oj Heafcribed the reafons of theSolftices, or o Plut. 2. Tropicks of the Sun, to the Sphere that con- 23. taineth him, and hindreth him from palling fur¬ ther ; as alfo to the two Tropicks.
( p) The Moon is in form like a difti. p
(^J The Moon is twice as far from the Sun, iy. uert. as (he is from the Earth. q Hat. 2.
(r) Winter cometh when the air is predomi- g
nant in thicknefs, and is forced upward ; Sum¬ mer, when the fire is in like manner predomi¬ nant, antPis driven downward.
(s) The Sea is the fweat of the Earth, burnt s Plut. 3. byth^ Sun, which Iqueefeth the fweat out of it. *6.
Of The foul puts on the feveral forms of all t Laert, living creatures, and plants ; whence he faid of himfelf :
A Boy I was, then did a Maid become :
■ A Plant, Bird, Fiji], and in the vafi Sea [wont,
(«) The particular fenfes are affedfed accor- xiplut.t^ ding to the proportion of their pores and pafla- ges, namely, as the proper objedf of each fenfe is well difpofed and fitted.
(x) Referabiances in Mirrours come by the xj>lut.^. means of certain defluxions gathered together, ^4- upon the fuperficies of the Mirrour, and accom- plilhed by thafire that arifeth from the faid Mir¬ rour ; and withal, tranfmuteth the air thatis be-'
fore it, into which thofe fluxions are carried.
(y ) Plutarch faith, he mingled the vifual ima- y Pita, 4. ges and beams together, calling that which is ^3* made thereof. The rays of a compound image.
(z,) Hearing is perform’d by means of a wind z Plut, 6,. within the hollow of the Ear, turned in manner of a ferew, fitted and framed of purpofe within the Ear, hanging up, and beaten upon in man¬ ner of a Bell.
(«) TheHeg^monickisthe confiftenceof the aPto.4 5 I blood.
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laert. j| 4 PIC H A R MUS alfo heard Pythagoras.
He was of Coos, fon of Helothaks, At -ft J three months old ; he was carried from Sicily to Megara, and from thence to Syracuse, as he himfelf faith in his Commentaries. On his Image was this infeription :
' As Stars exceeded hy the radiant Sun,
Streams by the Ocean, into which they run ;
So all by Epicharmus are furpafi, •
On whoje head Syracufe this Garland plac'd.
He wrote Commentaries, in which he dif- courfed Phyfiologically, and Sententioufly, and Medicinally: and added little Notes to his Commentaries, by which they are known to be his. He died ninety years old.
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