Note 4:1 — Chapter I · Of the Earth, Soil, Seed, Air, and Water.
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Nam specimen sationis, & infitionis origo Ipsa fuit rerum primum natura creatrix: Arboribus quoniam baccæ, glandesque caducæ Tempestiva dabant pullorum examina subter, &c. Lucret. l. 5.