Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables . rs of obfervers, which is very in-con fiderable, fhall increafe, and the croud of fyftem-makers fhall be leflened. Syftems of botany becomeobfolete in time, becaufe they are not chiefly founded oaNature and experiment. Page 436. He was of opinion, that Natural Hiftorvdoes not confiil: in a catalogue of animals, plants, andfoflils, but in the knowledge of their qualities. Hetherefore taught their ftruiture, analyfis, properties an4ufe, without neglecting, however, fuch marks as mayenable us to arrange them in an index. Th
Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables . rs of obfervers, which is very in-con fiderable, fhall increafe, and the croud of fyftem-makers fhall be leflened. Syftems of botany becomeobfolete in time, becaufe they are not chiefly founded oaNature and experiment. Page 436. He was of opinion, that Natural Hiftorvdoes not confiil: in a catalogue of animals, plants, andfoflils, but in the knowledge of their qualities. Hetherefore taught their ftruiture, analyfis, properties an4ufe, without neglecting, however, fuch marks as mayenable us to arrange them in an index. Thofe v/ho com-mit to memory nothing but fuch indexes, or are dexte-rous in turning them over, in vain perfuade themfelves,that they are in polTeiuon of the book of Nature. ERRATA; In a PalTagf, tviich the Tranilator c^nKct nov\- find, for mfreptated^ rea^ The Coiitext wiii eafily the Rea(!,er to make this Cor—recStion in the p?cpey Place> TlieTC- are aifo a few Iraproprieties iJi the Pun(SufcdeK> whjck the Ra^d«s1 s alio sisfired to corre^*. ^
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