A
TABLE
OF THE
Principal Matters contain’d in this
BOOK.
- A
- Abstinence unusual, 211
- Age of Man in all Ages of the World, 172
- Aged Persons, 173
- Ages of Learning and Ignorance, 272
- Air, 4
- Innate, 121
- Necessary to Vegetable-Life, 9
- Vessels in Vegetables, 406
- Bladder of Fishes, 402
- Pump, Experiments in it, 5
- Use in enlightning the World, 12
- Heat under the Line, and in Lat. 81., 13
- Alce and Machlis, 317
- Aloe Americana, 420
- Amphibious Creatures, 157
- Anatomy comparative , 318
- Anger, 307
- Animals in general, 84
- In Particular, 260
- Places destroy’d by vile ones, 56
- Animalcules of the Waters, 186, 187, 401
- In Pepper-Water, 368
- Ant, 212, 371
- Antipathy, 135
- Aqueous Humour of the Eye repair’d, 106
- Arabians, 273
- Archytas’s Dove, 256, 276
- Art and Nature compar’d, 426
- Armature of Animals, 238
- Arteries, 301
- Arts, by whom invented, 276
- Ascent of Liquors, 52
- Asclepiades, 160, 190, 430
- Aspera Arteria in Birds, 341
- Ass free from Lice, 377
- Atmosphere, 4
- Attraction, 32, 40, 52
- Auditory Nerves, 128
- Augustus Cæsar’s Height, 209
- Augustus King of Poland, 291
- Austrian-Wells, how made, 76
- Ἀυτάρκεια, 422
- B
- Back-bone, 160
- Badges, their Antiquity, 442
- Balance of Animals, 168
- Balls on Vegetables, 234, 387
- Bat, 8, 316
- Beaver, 316
- Bees, 232, 240
- Beetles, 363
- Bejuco-Tree, 423
- Bembsbury-Camp, 64
- Birch-Tree, 223
- Birds, 333
- Bills, 192, 341, 344
- Boyancy, 9, 346
- Ears, 124, 342
- Incubation, 352
- A wonderful Instinct of one, 232
- Migration, 347
- Motion, 164
- Necks and Legs, 165, 346
- Rapacious, 256
- Stomachs, 345
- Births, Burials, &c., 174
- Blood, its Contrivance, 201, 329
- Blood-Hound, 204
- Blushing, how caused, 307
- Bohaques, 212
- Bonasus, 242
- Bones structure, &c., 159, 294, 300
- Brachmans, 269
- Brain, 319
- Branches of Vegetables, 418
- Bread, 185
- Breasts, 255
- Breath short on high Mountains, 6
- Bredon-hill, 64
- Breezes, Sea and Land, 18, 19
- Briar-Balls, 390
- Brutes out-do Man in some Things, 80, 85
- Bulbous Plants, 411
- Butterflies Colours, 365
- White ones, 370, 376
- C
- Cabbage Excrescences, 249
- Cadews, 234
- Camel, 324
- Canales Semicirculares, 127
- Capillary Plants have Seed, 410
- Cardamine, 414
- Carotid Arteries, 321
- Carps, 7
- Cartes vindicated, 271
- Cassada Plant, 58
- Cases on Willow and other Vegetables, 387
- Castor, 198, 316
- Caterpillars, 241, 395
- Caves bellowing, 130
- Goutieres and others, 64, 67
- Celandine, 420
- Chamæleon, 91, 240
- Chance, 189, 194, 313, 435
- Cheop’s Height, 290
- Chickens, 210
- Children numerous, 178
- China, 279
- Chyle, 200
- Circulation of the Blood restor’d, 146
- Claspers, 419
- Clocks Variation under the Æquinoctial, 39
- Clock-work, its Invention, 235
- Cloathing of Animals, 214
- Clouds, 20, 49, 74
- Cold, how provided against in the northern Regions, 217
- Colours felt, 143
- Colymbi, 355
- Combs of Bees, &c., 232
- Coneys, 229
- Consent of Parts, whence, 305
- Cormorants Eye, 104
- Cortex Peruvianus, 421
- Countenance, whence its variation arises, 308
- Cranes, 208
- Cricket, 365
- Mole, 233, 365
- Crocodile, 238, 243
- Cross-Bill, 193
- Crow, 307
- Crystalline Humour, 104
- Cuntur of Peru, 169
- Cup of a Pepper Corn, 367
- D
- Dandelion, 412
- Dangerous Things not easily discover’d, 266
- Daniel, 270
- Day and Night, 45
- Days of the Week, 436
- Dead Persons found in the same Posture as alive, 24
- Deaf Persons cured by a Fever, 304
- Understand by the Motion of the Lips, 113
- Hear by the Help of a Noise, 126
- Death-Watch, 59
- Deer, Worms in their Heads, 379
- Degree, its Measure, 43
- Descent of heavy Bodies, 32
- Destruction of Places by vile Animals, 55
- Dialects, 309
- Diamonds grow, 64
- Diastole of the Heart, 147
- Digestion, 189
- Diseases sometimes useful, 304
- Distribution of the Earth and Waters is well, 47
- Dittany, 420
- Divers, 132
- Dog-Fish, 209
- Dogs, 197, 204
- Dolphin, 238
- Douckers, 355
- Drebell’s submarine Ship, 5
- Drink afforded by Plants, 422
- Dromedary, 199, 324
- Drowned Persons reviving, 155
- Ducklings naturally run to the Water, 168, 188
- Ducks Bills, 193, 205
- Dugs, 255
- Dung a guard to Animals, 242
- E
- Eagle, 206, 230, 347
- Wooden one of Regiomontanus, 276, 356
- Ear, outer in divers Animals, 115, 117
- inward, 120
- in the Womb, 120
- Consent with other Parts, 128
- Effects of its Loss, 118
- Muscles, 119
- Wax, 121
- Earth-worm, 223, 393, 399
- Earwig, 365
- Eels, 203
- Eggs, 351
- Cicatricula and Treddles, 352
- Of Insects well laid up, 382
- due Number laid, 252
- Egypt famed for Art, 269
- Elephant, 256, 316, 323
- Elephantiasis, 398
- Queen Elizabeth’s Height, 290
- Elk, 316
- Elm Leaves, a Scarab bred therein, 250
- Ephemeron, 182, 234, 247
- Epicurus, 160, 190
- Erect Vision, 111
- Evaporations, 35
- how caused, 48
- Excellence of God’s Works, 425
- Eye, 87
- of Birds and Fishes, 103
- Monocular, 93
- Shining or Feline, 101
- Wounds of it cured, 106
- Eye-lids, Structure, &c., 107
- F
- Face, 308, 309
- Farcy cured, 58
- Fearful Animals couragious when they have Young, 208, 254
- Feathers, 221, 334, 336
- Feeding the Young, 255
- Feeling, 142
- Fern-seed, 410, 414
- Feet, 163, 206, 233, 338
- Figure of Man’s Body, 288
- Fingers, 283
- Fishes Agreement with Birds, 103, 341, 402
- Boyancy whence, 10
- Lowsy, 378
- Motion, &c., 402
- Teeth, 195
- Flowers, 407
- Flesh-fly, &c., 248
- Fly of Iron, 276
- Flying, 338
- Of Man, 267, 337
- Fœtus, Blood’s Circulation in it, 153
- Folding of Leaves and Flowers, 407
- Food of Animals, 179, 254
- Fool, Observables in one opened, 329
- Foot, 285, 316
- Foramen Ovale, 154, 157, 326
- Fossiles, 63
- Fountains where found, 65
- Origine, 23, 25, 51, 75
- Fox, 204
- Frœdlicius’s Observations on Mount Carpathus, 131
- Frogs, 163, 325
- Rain, 245
- The great Frost, 218
- Fruits, where Insects hatch, 375
- communicate with the Root, 405
- Fuci, Fungi, &c. and their Seed, 414
- G
- Galen’s Arguments against Chance, 26, 428, 430
- his Hymns to God, 425, 434
- Galli Sylvestres, 212, 229
- Galls, 388
- Gascoigne Knight, 134
- Gems, and Stories of them, 311
- of Vegetables, 407
- Generation, 244, 245
- Æquivocal, 244, 380
- Of Insects, 374
- Genius of Man, 264
- Giants, 289
- Gifts of Man are of God, 263, 268
- to be improved, 281
- Gills of Fishes, 402
- Gizzard, 199, 345
- Glama, 242
- Glands, 196
- Glasses broken with the Voice, 135
- Glaucus, 209
- Gnat, 191, 367
- Generation, 375, 383
- Goat tame and wild, 317
- Grashoppers, 363
- Gratitude from Seneca, 432
- Gravity, 31
- Green, Anne, revived after being hanged, 156
- Green Scum on the Waters, 187
- Grotta delli Serpi, 398
- Grottos, 67
- Podpetschio, 68
- Growth of Grain speedy in the frigid Zone, 184
- Gryllotalpa, 233, 365
- Guira Tangelma, 232
- Gullet, 196
- Guns heard afar off, 133
- Shot, its Velocity, 28
- Guts, 200
- Gymnosophists, 269
- H
- Habitations of Animals, 226
- Hair, 220
- Hand, 282, 298
- Writing, 308
- Hanged Persons reviving, 146
- Hang-Nest, 232
- Hare, 241
- Hawks, 206
- Head of Birds, 340
- Headless People, 89
- Hearing, 113
- How perform’d, 124, 342
- Heart, 298, 325
- Of the Lamprey, 300
- Situation in Quadrupeds, 326
- Heat Subterraneous, 49
- Of the torrid Zone, 17, 50
- Of our Bodies, 17
- And Cold not Effects, but Causes of the Variations of the Winds, 15
- Heavy Bodies descent, 32
- Hedge-hog, 239
- Hemlock, 58
- Heron, 256, 347
- Hills run East and West, 74
- Hollanders saw the Sun sooner than ordinary near the Pole, 13
- Homer ascribes Men’s Endowments to God, 263
- Honeywood, Mrs. Mary, 275
- Hop-strings Use, 405
- Visible Horizon, 283
- Hornets, 191, 257
- Horse-Fly, 248
- Hurtful Creatures few, 170, 252
- Hyæna, 205
- Hydrocanthari, 363
- I
- Jaws, 194
- Ichneumon-Fly, 375, 379, 385, 388
- Wasp, 371, 384, 385
- Henry Jenkin’s Age, 173
- Ignorant Ages, 272
- Imposthume unusually discharged, 302
- Incubation, 253, 351
- Inclinations of Men, 263
- Incus Auris, 123
- Infant’s Ear in the Womb, 120
- Inferiour Creatures cared for, 58, 213, 258
- Insects, 359
- Antennæ, 361, 362
- Care of their Young, 207, 229, 373
- Conveyance from Place to Place singular, 364
- Cornea and Eyes, 359
- Male and Female how known, 363
- Mouth, 189, 193, 233
- Nidification, 383
- Poises, 366
- Sagacity, 369
- Shape, 359
- Instinct, 203, 214, 229, 231, 237
- Intercostal Muscles, 152
- Nerves, 328, 330
- Invention, 265
- of the Ancients, 276
- Job, 269
- Joints, 161
- Iron in the Forest of Dean, 63
- Islands, why warmer than the Continents, 49
- Issue numerous, 178
- July, 396
- Ivy, 418
- K
- Kissing, whence it affects, 306
- Knives, &c. swallowed and discharged, 302
- L
- Labyrinth of the Ear, 127
- Lacteals, 200
- Lakes, 217
- Larynx, 148
- Laughter, how caused, 306
- Learned Men, 273
- Ages, 272
- Leaves of Vegetables, 250
- Insects bred in them, 250, 376
- Legs, 206, 298, 316, 338
- Levity, 35
- Lice, 377
- Life in Vacuo, 8
- in compressed Air, 5
- its Length, 172
- Cause of long Life, 173
- Proportion to Death, 176
- Light, 12, 26
- its Velocity, 28, 29
- Expansion and Extent, 30
- Likeness of Men, 308
- Lion’s Bones, 318
- Listning, what it doth, 126
- Long-tail’d Titmouse, 231
- Lord’s-Day, 435
- Why Capital among the Jews to prophane it, 443
- Lungs, 145, 150
- Full of Dust, 151
- of Birds, 346
- Luxury, 310
- M
- Maggots in Sheeps Noses, Cows Back, &c., 378
- Magnet, 274
- Magnus Orbis, 33
- Males and Females Proportions, 175
- Malleus auris, by whom discovered, 123
- Man, 270
- Whether all Things made for him, 55
- Mandeville, Sir John, 89
- Mansor, 278
- Marsh-Trefoil, 421
- Marriages, Births and Burials, 174
- Mastication, 196
- Medicine, 57, 420
- Local, 421
- Memory, 262
- Metallick Trades, by whom invented, 266
- Mice, 212, 220
- Migration of Birds, 347
- Milk, 255
- Minerals and Metals grow, 63
- Misseltoe, 415
- Mole, 8, 92, 199, 205, 319
- Ear, 116
- Money, 311
- Moths Colours, 365
- Motion of Animals, 158
- of the Terraqueous Globe, 43
- Motory-Nerves of the Eye, 106
- Mountains and Valleys, 70
- Their Riches and Poverty, 75
- Mouth, 189
- Whence affected by the Sight, 307
- Muscles, 158, 294, 298
- Æquilibrations of those of the Eye, 96
- Triangular, 153
- Musick, by whom invented, 266
- Effects, 134
- Mustard Seed, 411
- N
- Neck of Beasts, 322
- Nerves in Birds Bills, 205, 344
- Different in Man and Beasts, 328, 330
- Fifth Pair, 306
- Water-Newt, 163
- Nictitating Membrane, 109
- Nidification, 232
- Nidiots or Niditts, 191
- Nocturnal Animals Eyes, 100
- Northern Nations, speedy Growth of Vegetables there, 184
- Provisions against their Cold, 217
- Nostrils, 137
- Noxious Creatures, 56, 82, 252
- Remedies against them, 57
- Nutmegs, 416
- O
- Oak-Apples and Galls, 388
- Objects, how painted on the Retina, 111
- Observatory at Pekin in China, 279
- Odours, 137
- Old Persons, 172
- Opium, 421
- Opossum, 206, 208
- Original of Nations and Arts, 276
- Orkney Islands, 218
- Os Orbiculare, by whom discovered, 124
- Ostrich, 259, 353, 354
- Ottele’s Age and Beard, 173
- Otter, 316
- Oyl-Bag, 334
- P
- Parrots, 192
- Æthiopian, 208
- Par Vagum, 328
- Passions and Affections, 330
- Pectinated Work in Birds Eyes, 103
- Pectoral Muscles, 337
- Pendulums Variation under the Line, 39
- Pericardium in Man and Beasts, 285, 327
- Perpetual Motion, 267
- Perspiration insensible, 219
- Phaeton in a Ring, 367
- Phalænæ, Generation of some of them, 225, 376
- Pharmacy, 57
- Phryganeæ, 234
- Pigeons Incubation, 253
- Pimpernel Flowers, 412
- Place of Animals, 166
- Plague, its Cause, 16
- Prevented or cured by the Winds, ibid.
- Sore discharged unusually, 302
- Planets Motion round their Axes, 33
- Figure, 39
- Plants, no Transmutation of them, 409
- Poysonous, 58
- Plexus Cervicalis, 328
- Plumb-Stones, the Danger of swallowing them, 302
- Poising of the Body, 281
- Polygamy unnatural, 175
- Posture of Man, 281
- Poyson, 397
- Preening and Dressing of Birds, 334
- Printing, its Invention, 275, 278
- Pronunciation, 309
- Propagation of Mankind, 174
- Providence divine, Objections against it answer’d, 55
- Pulices Aquatici, 186
- Pumps, cause why Water riseth in them, 11
- Pupil of the Eye, 99, 100
- Pythagoras, 269
- Q
- Quadrupeds, 315
- Quail Migration and Strength, 350
- R
- Rain, how made, 20
- Its Use, ibid.
- Most about the Æquinoxes, 22
- More in the Hills than Vales, 78
- Bloody, and other preternatural, 23, 245
- Of divers Places, 23, 79
- Rapacious Birds, 339
- Rattles, Inventions of them, 276
- Rattle-Snake, 57, 396
- Rats, 208, 220
- Raven, 183, 205
- Refractions, 13, 284
- The Reformation, 278
- Reptiles, 393
- Respiration, 145
- Of watery Animals, 7
- In Vegetables, 406
- In compressed Air, 5
- In rarify’d Air, 6
- Uses, 145
- Rete mirabile, 322
- Ribs, 152, 161
- Rivers Origin, 75
- Changing the Hair, 224
- Long Tract of some, 52
- Rotten-Wood, its use to the northern People, 405
- Royal Society vindicated, 416
- Rumination, 200, 324
- Rushes, Animals bred in them, 349
- S
- Sagacity of Animals about Food, 202
- Salamander, 241
- Saltness of the Sea, 400
- Skeleton of Sexes different, 160
- Scolopendra, 396
- Sea-Calf, 157, 325
- Sea-Pie, 193
- Secretion, 300
- Security of the Body against Evils, ibid.
- Seed of Vegetables, 407, &c.
- Self-Preservation, 238
- Semination, 412
- The five Senses, 85
- Sensitive Plants, 412
- Serpents, 394
- Shark, 57, 243
- Shells, 239
- Sight, its Accuracy in some, 87
- Actuated by Disease, 304
- Why not double with two Eyes, 94
- Silk-Worms, 385
- Skin, 299
- Sky, why azure, 12
- Sleep procur’d, 58
- Prejudicial after Sun-rising, 46
- Smellen Cave, 130
- Smelling, 137, 204
- Smoak emitted through the Ears, 123
- Snails, 91, 110, 395, 399
- Snakes, 394
- Snipes, 192
- Snow, its Use, 24
- Soils and Moulds, 61
- Sound in Air rarify’d and condens’d, 130
- In Italy, and other Places, 133
- On the Tops of high Mountains, 131
- Velocity, 28, 133
- Soul, 261
- Speaking-Trumpet, 119
- Specifick Medicines, 422
- Spiders Eyes, 90
- Darting their Webs, 364
- Textrine Art, 235, 384
- Poyson, 236
- Spinning, by whom invented, 266
- Springs Origins, 23, 51, 76
- Where found, 65, 77
- Squaring the Circle, 266
- Squatina, 209
- Squillulæ Aquaticæ, 190, 364
- Squnck or Stonck, 242
- Stalactites, 64
- Stapes Auris, by whom found out, 123
- Stature, Size, and Shape of Man, 288, 290
- Sting of Bees, &c., 240
- Stoicks Arguments for a Deity in Tully, 2, 37, 44, 54, 99, 108, 120, 137, 144, 159, 167, 177, 180, 182, 203, 207, 220, 241, 264, 282, 297, 298
- Stomach, 197, 324
- Of Birds, 345
- Animals found in it, 379
- Stones eaten by Worms, 192, 247
- Storm in 1703, 245
- Strata of the Earth, 63
- Straw-Worms, 234
- Strong Men, 291
- Subterraneous Trees, &c., 11
- Sucking, 209, 255
- Summer if cold, why wet, 22
- Sun’s Distance from the Earth, 29, 30
- Motion round its own Axis, 33
- Standing still, &c., 44, 45
- Swallows and Swifts, 339, 349
- Swans Aspera Arteria, 341
- Swine, 205, 212, 254, 319
- Sword-Fishes Eye, 105
- Sycophantick-Plants, 415
- Syracusian Sot, 351
- T
- Tabon or Tapun Bird, 353
- Tadpole, 163
- Tail of Birds, 337
- Tarantula’s Bite, 135
- Taste, 140
- Consent with the Smell, 141
- Tears, 108, 307
- Teeth, 193
- Telescopes, Invention of them, 275
- Long ones, 39
- Tents, their Inventer, 266
- Terraqueous Globe balanced, 48
- Bulk and Motions, 43
- Figure, 39
- Situation and Distribution, 46, 47
- Objections against its Structure answer’d, 47, 70, 80
- Cause of its Sphæricity, 40
- Thankfulness to God from Seneca, 54, 81, 216, 433
- Thistles useful in making Glass, 405
- Thornback, 202
- Tides, 400
- Tongue, 149, 295
- Its Loss, 149
- Tortoise, 158, 211, 224, 239, 325
- Trades, Inventors of them, &c., 266
- Transmutation of Plants, 409
- Trees delight in various Soils, 61
- how nourished, ibid.
- Tronningholm Gardiner, 155
- Tuba Eustachiana, 122
- The hot Tuesday, 17
- Tunicks of the Eye, why lin’d with black, 96
- Turnep Excrescences, 249
- Tympanum of the Ear, 123
- V
- Valleys and Mountains, 70
- Vapours what, and how rais’d, 20, 48
- Quantity rais’d, 35
- How precipitated, 22
- Variety of Things for the World’s Use, 53, 181, 404, 420
- Vegetables, 404
- Vegetation, 61
- Veins, 298
- Ventriloquous Persons, 149
- Vertue, its great Use and Benefit, 83
- Vesiculæ of the Lungs whether musculous, 151
- Vespæ-Ichneumons, 228, 363, 371, 385
- Vipers, 394, 397
- Cloathing, 224
- Viscera, 298
- Vision double, 95
- Erect, 111
- Unisons, 135
- Voice, 308
- Volcano’s, 68
- Upminster Register, 174
- how much above the Sea, 51
- Useful Creatures most plentiful, 169
- Things soonest discover’d, 266
- W
- Wandering Jew, 173
- Wasps Nidification, 191, 233, 257, 385
- Waters, 400
- Forcible Eruptions of them, 77
- Waterwith of Jamaica, 423
- Weather heavy and dark, 20
- Presages of it, 50, 412
- Wells how dug in Austria, &c., 76
- Whales, 401
- Wheat, 181
- Raining it, 244
- Whispering-Places, 119
- Wild-Fire, 422
- Dr. Willis’s Representation of Respiration, 145
- Winds, 14
- Healthful, 15, 16
- The Author’s Observations, 19
- Trade Winds, 42
- The Product, not cause of Heat and Cold, 15
- Wind-Pipe in divers Animals, 149
- Wings of Birds, 335
- Of Insects, 365
- Winter, the Preservation of Animals therein, 211
- Wisdom, where seated, 329
- Wood, 227
- Woodcocks, 192, 205
- Wood-Peckers, 193, 339, 342
- Works of Nature and Art compar’d, 38, 361
- World visible and invisible, 41
- Beginning asserted by Aristotle, 177
- Kept clean, 183
- Worms in the Flesh, 378
- In the Guts, 380
- In other Parts, ibid.
- Wornils, 378
- Worship of God, 441
- Wry-Neck, 225, 241
- Y
- Yolk of the Egg its Use, 351
- Young taken Care of, 207
- In a certain Number, 168, 252
- Z
- Zirchnitzer Sea, 68