Medicina statica : being the aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into English, with large explanations . Medicina Statica. INTRODUCTION. Of Mechanical Knowledge, and theGrounds of Certainty in Physick. hysical Writers of late, have, with agreat deal of Induftry and Succefr, in-troduced Geometry into their Studies, andendeavoured to account for all thatconcerns the animal Occoiiomy uponmechanical Principles: And this they feem to havedone, not only as the beft Means to get clear ofall Suppofitions and delufory Hypotheies^ but alfoas to them, it has appeard to be the only Wayby which we are fitt
Medicina statica : being the aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into English, with large explanations . Medicina Statica. INTRODUCTION. Of Mechanical Knowledge, and theGrounds of Certainty in Physick. hysical Writers of late, have, with agreat deal of Induftry and Succefr, in-troduced Geometry into their Studies, andendeavoured to account for all thatconcerns the animal Occoiiomy uponmechanical Principles: And this they feem to havedone, not only as the beft Means to get clear ofall Suppofitions and delufory Hypotheies^ but alfoas to them, it has appeard to be the only Wayby which we are fitted to arrive at any fims-factory Knowledge .in the Works of Nature. Buzbecaule fome herein have gone fo far, - happen notto have their Heads well turned this Way, and who,but of foinePrepolTeffions in Favour of occult Quali- B i Sympathies and Antipathies, and the like, can-not bear without Indignation and Scorn to iee thofegreat Myftcries of Phyfick, and that excellent Framewhich is its Subject, that beautiful Epitome of theCreation, marked out like a Spot of Earth, or a Pieceof Timber, with Rule and Compares: For this Rea-fon, I fay, it is, that by this Introduction is intendedan Enquiry into the Means by which we arrive atany Certainty in Phyfick, and to fhew? that it isnot to be done without fuch Helps 3 for I cannotbut be perfwaded, that the fmall Progrefs which hasbeen made in phyfical Knowledge for a long Spaceof Time, is chiefly owing to the Want of a due Atten-tion to thofe Powers and Capacities of the Mind,by which oniy it is enabled to purfue fuch Enqui-ries ; otherwife, certainly, fo many, who pretend alfoto be no mean Proficients therein, would not takefo much Diftafte at all Pretences of this Kind, as itis common to meet with 5 and affirm oftimes, that theBelt talk but learn
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