Valerius Terminus
- Subtitle
- Of the Interpretation of Nature
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1. Preface by Robert Leslie Ellis2. CHAPTER 1. — OF THE LIMITS AND END OF KNOWLEDGE.3. CHAPTER 4.4. CHAPTER 7. — THAT THE PRETENDED SUCCESSION OF WITS HATH BEEN EVIL PLACED, FOR ASMUCH AS AFTER VARIETY OF SECTS AND OPINIONS, THE MOST POPULAR AND NOT THE TRUEST PREVAILETH AND WEARETH OUT THE REST; BEING THE 7TH CHAPTER; A FRAGMENT.5. CHAPTER 8. — OF THE IMPEDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE IN HANDLING IT BY PARTS, AND IN SLIPPING OFF PARTICULAR SCIENCES FROM THE ROOT AND STOCK OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, BEING THE 8TH CHAPTER, THE WHOLE CHAPTER.6. CHAPTER 9. — THAT THE END AND SCOPE OF KNOWLEDGE HATH BEEN GENERALLY MISTAKEN, AND THAT MEN WERE NEVER WELL ADVISED WHAT IT WAS THEY SOUGHT; BEING THE 9TH CHAPTER, WHEREOF A FRAGMENT (WHICH IS THE END OF THE SAME CHAPTER) IS BEFORE.7. CHAPTER 10. — THE INVENTORY, OR AN ENUMERATION AND VIEW OF INVENTIONS ALREADY DISCOVERED AND IN USE, TOGETHER WITH A NOTE OF THE WANTS AND THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLIES, BEING THE 10TH CHAPTER; AND THIS A SMALL FRAGMENT THEREOF, BEING THE PREFACE TO THE INVENTORY.8. CHAPTER 11. — THE CHAPTER IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE INVENTORY; BEING THE 11TH IN ORDER; A PART THEREOF.9. CHAPTER 12.10. CHAPTER 13.11. CHAPTER 14.12. CHAPTER 15.13. CHAPTER 16.14. CHAPTER 17.15. CHAPTER 18.16. CHAPTER 19.17. CHAPTER 21.18. CHAPTER 22.19. CHAPTER 25.20. CHAPTER 26.21. BACK COVER