Agrippa kept a Stygian Pug.

Cornelius Agrippa had a Dog that was suspected to be a Spirit, for fome Tricks he was wont to do, beyond the Capacity of a Dog, as it was thought; but the Author of Magia Adamica has taken a great deal of pains to vindicate both the Doctor and the Dog from that Afperfion; in which he has fhewn a very great Refpect and Kindness for them both.

As Averrhois play'd but a mean trick. ·

Averrhois Aftronomiam propter Excentricos · contempfit. Phil. Melancton in Elem. Phyf. P. 781.

The Median Emp'ror dreamt his Daughter.

Aftyages, King of Media, had this Dream of his Daughter Mandane, and the Interpretation from the Magi; wherefore he Married her to a Perfian of a mean Quality, by whom fhe had Cyrus, who Conquer'd all Afia, and tranflated the Empire from the Medes to the Perfians, Herodot. 1. 2.

When

When Cæfar in the Senate fell.

Fiunt aliquando prodigiofi, & longiores Solis Defectus, quales occifo Cafare Dictatore & Antoniano Bello, totius Anni Pallore continuo. Plin.

Auguftus having b' Overfight, &c.

Divus Auguftus Lavum fibi prodidit calceum prapoftere indutum, quo die feditione Militum propè afflictus eft. Idem. 1. 2.

The Roman Senate when within
The City Walls, an Owl was feen.

Romani L. Craffo & C. Mario Coff. Bubone vifo orbem luftrabant.

For Anaxagoras long agone,
Saw Hills as well ag you i' th' Moon.

Anaxagoras affirmabat Solem candens Ferrum effe, & Peloponnefo majorem: Lunam Habitacula in fe Habere, & Colles, & Valles. Fertur dixiffe Colum omne ex Lapidibus effe compofitum Damnatus & in exilium pulfus eft, quod impiè Solem candentem laminam effe dixiffet. Diogen. Laert. in Anaxag. P.11.13.

Th' Ægyptians fay, the Sun has twice Shifted his Setting and his Rife. Egyptii Decem millia Annorum & amplius recenfent& obfervatum eft in hoc tanto Spatio, bis mutata effe Loca Ortuum & Occafuum Solis, ita ut Sol bis ortus fit ubi nunc occitlit,& bis defcenderit ubi nunc oritur. Phil. Melanct. Lib. 1. p. 60.

Some bold the Heavens like a Top,
Are kept by Circulation up:

Caufa quare Cœlum non cadit, (fecundum Empedoclem) eft velocitas fui motûs. Comment. in L. 2. Ariftot. de Colo.

Plato believ'd the Sun and Moon
Below all other Planets run.

Plato Solem & Lunam cæteris Planetis inferiores effe putavit. G. Cunnin. in Cofmogr. L. 1. p. II.

The Learned Scaliger complain'd.

Copernicus in Libris Revolutionum, deinde Reinboldus, post etiam Stadius Mathematici nobiles perfpicuis Demonftrationibus docuerunt, folis Apfida Terris effe propriorem, quam Ptolomai atate duodecim partibus, i. e. uno & triginta

triginta terra femidiametris, Jo. Bod. Met. Hift. p. 455.

Cardan believ'd great States depend, &c.

Putat Cardanus, ab extrema Cauda, Helices feu Majoris Urfa omne magnum Imperium pendere. Idem. p. 325.

That th' old Chaldean Conjurers
In fo many Hundred Thousand Tears.

Chaldei jastant fe quadringinta feptuaginta Annorum millia in periclitandis, experiundifque Puerorum Animis pofuiffe. Cicero.

Like Money by the Druids borrow'd, &c.

Druida pecuniam mutuò accipiebant in pofteriore vita reddituri. Patricius Tom. 2.

That paltry Story is untrue,

And forg'd to cheat fuch Gulls as you.

P. 9.

There was a notorious Idiot (that is here defcrib'd by the Name and Character of Whachum) who counterfeited a Second Part of Hudibras, as untowardly as Captain Po, who could not write himself, and yet made a shift to stand on the Pillory, for Forging other Mens hands, as his Fellow Whachum no doubt deferv'd; in whofe abominable

Doggerel,

Doggerel, this Story of Hudibras and a French Mountebank at Brentford Fair, is as properly defcrib'd.

That the Vibration of this Pendulum
Shall make all Taylors Tards of one
Unanimous Opinion.

The Device of the Vibration of a Pendulum, was intended to fettle a certain Measure of Ells and Yards, c. (that fhould have its Foundation in Nature) all the World over: For by fwinging a Weight at the End of a String, and calculating (by the Motion of the Sun, or any Star) how long the Vibration would laft, in proportion to the Length of the String, and Weight of the Pendulum; they thought to reduce it back again, and from any part of Time, compute the exact Length of any String that muft neceffarily vibrate in fo much space of Time: So that if a Man fhould ask in China for a Quarter of an Hour of Sattin or Taffata, they would know perfectly what it meant. And all Mankind learn a new way, to measure things no more by the Yard, Foot, or Inch, but by the Hour Quarter, and Minute.

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