Part X

Cattfes of Seeds and Plants and Fruits.
Caufes of Animals, three.
Mixt Caufes. of Stone.
M ATHEM ATIC K.
Uiex yvdfSMi j ot , of the contaB of a
Circle and a Spbear. of Geometry.
Geometrick.
Numbers.
Of furd lines, and folid, two,
'EKnirdespialct,
The great year, or, Aftronomy.
Parapegma j Salmajius makes this all on« with the other, VQAddng, The great year, or Parapegma of Ajlrcnomy. Parapegma is a Table defcribing the rifing and fetting of the Stars, equinoxes folftices, and the like.
The contention or examination of the Hour~glafs. Uranography.
Geography.
Polography.
ABinography.
MUSIC K.
Of Rythms and Harmony.
Of Poetry.
Of the neatnefs of V irfes.
0/ fiveet-founding. and har^i- founding Letters.
Of Homer, or of rigbt-verfifying and fpeaking. Of Songs.
Of fVords, a DiBionary.
MEC HA N IC K, or concerning ARTS. Progneflick.
Of Diet, or Diretetick, or a Medicinal rule. Caufes of things feafonable and anfeaj enable.
Of Agriculture, or Geometrick. of Painting.
TaBick, and, of Armes.
To which fame, cut of his Commentaries, annex thefe j
Of the facred Letters in Babylon ; to which per¬ haps ( c ) Ch mens Alexandrinus alludes. Demo¬ critus, faith he, writ Babylonian Moral dif- courfes, for he is faid to have inferted into his own Writings the fenfe of the Pillar of Acicarus..
of the things that are at Meroe.
A •voyage on the Ocean.
of Hifiorj.
A dtjcDurfe of Chaldtea.
A difeourje of Phrygia.
Of the Fever and Cough in (teknefs.
Chernica, or Problems. Perhaps the fame which (d) Pliny terms Chtrocineta, (e) Vitruvius, Cht- rotontton, adding, that in it he made ufe of a ring, and drew the fgures of the experiments in wax and red- lead,
Jhe reft (laith ThrayfiUus^ that go under his name, and partly made out of his TFritings, partly acknow¬ ledged to be the Writings of other men. Of which kind perhaps in his Book of the virtue of herbs, mentioned by ( f) Pliny, and that of (^) Com¬ mentaries upon Apollonices , Capridenes , and Dar- danus, from whence he argues Democritus to have been skilful in Magick; But (h) Agelltus much blames liim for aferibing to Democritus fuch pro¬ digious fables.
bC/f yttcad, 4. Ariji.
(i) Arijtoxenus affirms, that Plato had an in- i bstri tent to have burned all the writings of Demo^ critus, and for that end had made a Colietltion of a great many of tliem : but v:a% diverted by Amy das and Clsnuss, Pythagoreans.
C M A P. iX.
Pbyfich.
He compleated the EleatUk Sedjand brought it to Perfediion, infixing upon and im¬ proving the Principles of thofe chat went be¬ fore, but moft particularly thofe of LEUC 1 P- PUS. His Alfertions thefe.
SECT. I.
Of the Principles of things, Atoms and Vacuum.
THe Principles of all things are Atoms (a) ol Arif}.
( folid (Js), full ) and Vacuum, ( c) where- of one is Ens, the other Non-evs. ( d ) Ens is ^ fulland folid ; is Vacuous and rare j Ens
participates no more of Being than doth Non-ens, c Arif}. nor of Body more than doth Vacuum, Thefeare the caufes and matter of beings.
{e) Bodies muft either confift of Atoms, or e Ar^t. of nothing j for if every body be divifible, let us fuppofe it adlually divided, and then there will remain either Atoms or nothing ; but of no- f Ariji. thing, nothing is made, and nothing goes away %/• 3 - 4- into nothing. «
( /’) Neither of thefe Principles is made of the other, but the common body it felf is the exh 3 Principle of all things, differing only in magni- ^-t-aert. tude and the figure of its parts. ^
They are both, infinite: Atoms (g ) in num- ber. Vacuum in Maglitude. \ Uert,
(h) The Properties of Atoms are two. Figure k Arift. and Magnitude; (i) as to Figure, they are in- Ph.l-t.6. finite; (^jAngulous, not-angulous, Brait, round \ ( 1) fome are fmooth, others rugged; m Pkihp. feme pointed , fome crooked , and as it were «« i rhyf. hooked. " c/c. dt
As to their Magnitude, ( m) they are by rea- fon of their lit tlenefs , invsfible (n) by reafon of pin their folidity , in divifible , ( 0) impaffible, and un- i. ly. L«- alterabk. ert, hSagnt-
To thefe two Properties aferibed to Atoms by Democritus ( p ) Plutarch Pdllb, that Epicurus added a third, weight ; but (q) Ariflotle affirms, gar Ele- thaC Democritus held one Atom to be heavier than ments,fire, another, according as it exceeded that other in big nejs.
Of all other qualities they are deftitute ; ha- Vhl
water, earth, pag, 41.42. ad¬ ding Of an
ving neither native whitenefs,nor blacknefs, nor affertion of fweetnefs, nor bitrernefs, nor heat, nor cold, onmeu- nor any other quality. ^
(r) Cicero, who Calls Democritus the Inventor ep figure, and Author of thisaffertion of Atoms, elfewhere and proves aferibes it to Leucippus, adding, that ( J ) De- mocritus herein followed him, hut was far more full in the ref. But neither feems it to have been invented by Leucippus , for Pofidonius the Stoick p aferibes it to MojehusA Phosnecian ; whom Strabo q
ftravgely, pag. 42. PUc. De gen.