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CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

PART II.

WORKS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE INSTAURATIO,

BUT NOT MEANT TO BE INCLUDED IN IT.

PREFACE to PART II.

COGITATIONES DE NATURA RERUM

PREFACE to DE FLUXU ET REFLUXU MARIS, by ROBERT

DE FLUXU ET REFLUXU MARIS

PREFACE to DE PRINCIPIIS ATQUE ORIGINIBUS SECUNDUM

FABULAS CUPIDINIS ET CŒLI, by ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS

DE PRINCIPIIS ATQUE ORIGINIBUS, ETC.

NEW ATLANTIS

MAGNALIA NATURE

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WORKS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR PARTS OF THE INSTAU-

RATIO MAGNA, BUT SUPERSEDED OR ABANDONED.

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PREFACE to VALERIUS TERMINUS, by ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS

VALERIUS TERMINUS

PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS.

PART II.

WORKS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA,

BUT NOT MEANT TO BE INCLUDED IN IT;

ARRANGED

ACCORDING TO THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN.

Ista enim nos tanquam in limine Historia Naturalis stantes prospicimus, quæ quanto magis quis se immerserit in Historiam Naturalem tanto fortasse probabit magis. Attamen testamur iterum nos hic teneri nolle. In his enim, ut in aliis, certi viæ nostræ sumus, certi sedis nostræ non sumus. - Thema Cæli, 1612.