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Qu. of Remooves and Expulsions in case wthin a tyme

some Invention woorthy be not produced. And likewise

qu, of the honors and Rewards for Inventions.
Vaults, fornaces, Tarraces for Insolacion; woork houses

of all sorts.
Endevor to abase the price of professory sciences and to

bring in æstimation Philosophy or Universality-name
and thing.

INQUISITIO LEGITIMA.
Sectio Nov.

1. Carta electionis et præoptionis. ordinis. op.

2. Sylva sive Carta Mater.
3. Meta posita sive Carta terminans.
4. Loci sive Carta Articulorū.
5. Vena exterior sive Carta divisionis

primæ.
6. Carta assignationis vel collocationis.

ap. 84.

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1. Carta Historiæ ordinatæ ad divisiones [f. 17.]

primas, et reliquos articulos.
2. Carta Amanuensis sive super Instantias.

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1. Carta Analysis motus compositi, vel de

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2. Vena interior, sive Carta divisionis se.

cundæ.
3. Carta observationis, sive axiomatis.
4. Carta humana optativa.
5. Carta humana activa, sive practica.
6. Carta Anticipationis, sive Interpreta-

tionis sylvestris.
7. Carta Indicationis, sive ad cartas no-

vellas.
Nota Interpretationem legitimā non
fieri, nec clavem Interpretationis ad.

15.

Universality. Compare the eighth chapter of Valerius Terminus, Phil. Works, iii. p. 228.

Inquisitio legitima. Ile had written first Inquisitio legitima de Motu. Then he strnek out de Mołu; confining himself in the first instance to a scheme of legitimate inquiry in general.

ap. sa. Probably apparentia secunda. Compare p. 70. Carta divisionis primæ, sive ad apparentiam primam.

operari, usque ad reordinationes et cartas novellas finitas, ut duæ sint Machine Intellectus, una Inferior quà descripsimus, altera Superior quæ est Novellarū.

qu.

Inquisitio Legitima de Motu. [f. 17, b.)

Cart. Electionis.
Quieta rere principia sermones spectant; moventia autem et
motus ipse, Opera.
Motuum genera bene discreta et descripta, Protei vincula.

Meta posita.
Quod animo metimur; Motus; Exactè inspicienti no alius
quam localis; sensibilis scilicet et minutus;

Etiam quies comprehenditur ; ex natura propria aut per accidens, ex libratione vel cohibitione motus.

3 motuum genera, inperceptibilia ; ob tarditatem, ut in digito horologii, ob minutias, ut liquor seu aqua corrumpitur aut congelat" &c.; ob tenuitatem corporis, ut omnifariæ aëris, venti, spiritus, quæ no cernunt' ac subtiliores eorf motus nullo sensu

immediate comprehendunt', sed tantū per pensa et effectus. [f. 18.]

Motus et naturas per globos no destinguimus ut alia sit ratio coelestiū, alia sublunariū: popularis ratio ista videt" et infirma; Nam etiam coelestia mutantur in magnis, ut patet in cometis coordinatis situ suo cū stellis fixis: In parvis si moventur tamen sensum nostrū latent; Nam quæ etiam in superficie terræ fiunt mutationes de circulo Lunæ, si oculus ibi positus esset, discerni nequirent; Rursus eadem æternitas et motus regularitas terræ competit; Nam in profunditate terræ par æternitas ac in Coelo, et vident' variationes et mutationes et turbæ tantū in confiniis regnore istorū fieri; scilicet in superficie et crusta terræ, et superficie et confiniis coeli ut in aëris regione media quă vocant;

Etiam fluxus maris tam regularis fere est quam motus lunæ. [f. 18, b.) De motu autem animali, et de eo motu qui ad sensum per

Novellarū. This appears to have been the conclusion of the second day's work. The next page is headed Transportat. Jul. 27, 1608 : in which he begins an inquiry, according to the scheme just set down, concerning the particular subject of motion. For his motive in beginning with this subject, and what the attempt ended in, see my preface to the fragment entitled Filum Labyrinthi sive Inquisitio legitima de Motu (Phil. Works, iii. 623), and to the De Interpretatione Naturæ Proæmium (ib. p. 514).

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agendū requiritur, non inquirimus, sed eū sui juris facimus et emancipamus ut seorsim et principaliter inquiratur.

Motus tamen animales quatenus ad cohibitionem, aut participationem manifestam motuū coeterorum comprehendimus, ut saltum, sanguinis per venas ascensionem, etc.

Motus autem impressionis sive signaturæ quæ incorporeæ sunt tamen ob spatiorū sive locore Mutationes comprehendimus, ut in sonis, visibilibus, attractionibus sive coitionibus; Calorem tamen et frigus omnino emancipamus ob dignitatem et multiplicem usum, et de illis seorsim et principaliter inquiri volumus.

Nec motū generationis vitalis expedimus, sive assimilationem magnā, sed et hunc emancipamus.

Carta Articulore.
First to inquire the severall kyndes or diversities of mocion.
Then what bodyes or subjects are susceptible of every kynd and

what not, and what have them in strength and what more ob-
scurely, and what have them more familiarly and what more

rarely. Then the comparisons of the forces of every mocion, and wch

is prædominant one over the other, and wch is absolute and never falsified, yf any such be; And how they evade and

shift ech nature of mocion to doe his part. Nodi et globi motuū, and how they concurre and how they suc

ceed and interchaung in things most frequent. The tymes and moments wherein mocions woork, and which is

the more swift and wch the more slowe, and whear they

take their beginninges and where they leave. The convenience or disconvenience wch mocion bath wth heat

and tenuity, and how these three meete, sever, or vary. The power in mocions corporall, of agitation, fier, tyme. The effects of mocion, and wt qualities it induceth respective to

every mocion. The force of union in mocions, and the Analogy thereof.3

And how they evade, etc. The last clause added in the margin.

nodi et globi. In the margin of the MS., opposite this and the three next paragraphs, are the following notes ; written apparently at another time, and without any special reference to the particular paragraphs against which they happen to stand. They are written consecutively, one under the other, with strokes of the pen between to separate them. “The Instrum's and efficients. Subjectū quasi efficiens generale, Efficiens tanquã subjectú proximū.—Periodi et processus motuum.-Spatia, orbis virtutis."

The power, etc. This paragraph appears to have been added at another time.

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[f. 19, b.] Cart. divisionis prima, sive ad apparientia primam.

Agitatio, sive motus absque termino, sive Motus se exercens.
Latio, sive Motus ad terminū, sive Motus Itinerans.

Agitationis species duæ: Agitatio placida; Agitatio in

quieta. Agitatio placida est Motus Conversionis, sive curulis. Agitatio inquieta duplex: Agitatio relevationis et tenta

tionis; Agitatio trepidationis. Lationis species duæ : Latio manifesta, sive Motus localis; latio

occulta sive Motus corporalis. Motus localis tres sunt species : Motus respectu spatiore ; Mo

tus respectu situs partiū; Motus respectu alterius.
Motus respectu spatiore habet 4 species.

Motus Nexus, sive ne detur vacuū.
Motus plagæ, sive Mechanicus, sive ne fiat penetratio

dimensionū. [f. 20.] Motus libertatis, sive ad sphærā veterem, sive ad conve

nientia ; qui est duplex. Motus a violenta condensatione ad convenientiam raritatis; et Motus a violenta

rarefactione ad convenientia densitatis. Motus Hyles migrantis, sive ad sphærā novā; qui etia

est duplex. Motus Hyles migrantis ad sphærā novā majorem ; Motus hyles migrantis ad sphæram novā

minorem. Motus respectu situs partiū, est simplex, et est Motus Con

gruitatis sive disponens.. Motus respectu alterius habet 4 species. Motus ad Massā, sive Congregationis Major, sive Panegy

ricus sive foederis generalis.
Motus Amicitiae, sive Congregationis minor ; sive sympa-

thiæ, sive foederis sanctioris.
Motus disgregationis Major, sive fugæ.

Motus disgregationis Minor, sive Antipathiæ.
[f. 20, b.] Motus Corporalis habet species sequentes, numero 17.

Motus Subsistentiæ, sive ne detur nihilū.

Motus Integritatis, sive ne admittatur corpus exterū; Isti 3 motus pertino

sive amplexus veteris. ad conser

Motus Cohibitionis, sive Regius, sive ne admittatur nova vationem in statu.

forma.

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mo

Motus maturationis sive exaltationis et perfectionis na

Iste

tus tendit turæ suæ, sive in potius.

ad perfec

tionem. Motus contractionis, sive hyles minorans interius, sive Isti 4 morestrictionis (A l'Italienne.

t' p'sup

ponunt Motus relaxationis sive hyles majorans exterius, sive fu- manentia sionis.

corporis in toto,

absque jacMotus separationis in se, sive factionis, sive congregans tura et homogenea et disgregans heterogenea, sive unionis per emissione,

licet mixpartes.

tura et or dinatio

partiū mu. Motus separationis in aliud, sive exilii, sive exituræ aut tetur.

Isti 3 emissionis.

tin' ad Motus separationis altæ et magnae, sive Anarchiæ, sive separatio

putrefactionis, sive separationis in pure, vel radicalis.

mot' per

nem.

Isti 3 mot'

Motus applicationis et resistentiæ secundū fibras, sive [f. 21.] texturā et ordinem earū.

pertinent Motus tenacitatis, sive adhærentiæ, sive primi tactus aut ad cor

porū apamplexus novi.

plicaMotus receptionis in se, sive Mistionis, sive incorporatio

nis, sive Indentatus, sive unionis per totū.

tiones.

motus

Motus generationis Jovialis, sive assimilationis, sive gene. Isti tres rationis similis sui fixæ et manentis.

p’tinent ad Motus generationis Saturniæ, sive signaturæ aut impres- propagasionis, sive generationis similis sui momentaneæ vel

speciei. transeuntis. Motus generationis fictæ, sive excitationis et imitationis.

tionem

motus sunt mu

Motus metamorphoseos placidæ, sive novæ formæ proce- Isti 2

dentis absque dissolutione. Motus metamorphoseos destruentis, sive novæ formæ a tationis corruptione, sive reordinationis et triumviratus, sive ru- majoris.

. dimenti generationis vitalis.

A l'Italienne. This is what the letters look likest ; but can hardly be what they were meant for.

Isti 3 ... separationem. So in MS.

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