This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...and have respectively their own forms and shapes.3 For there are various senses in ani heaven and earth, are into the heaven and earth received back again." With facessunt, which sadly wants a nominative, he understands philosophi, and takes remote facessunt in the sense of send far back. Lambinus and Creech have another lection, which, however, does not much alter the sense. 1 Far-from-impenetrable to other atoms. Ver. 959. I have rendered raro by far-from-impenetrable. See on ver. 943, 947! Swine--shrink from ointment of amaracus. Ver. 974. Amaracinum fugitat sus. "Vetus adagium est, nihil cum fidibus graculo; nihil cum amaracino sui." Aul. Gell. Pref. Their own forms and shapes. Ver. 984. Stiam naturam--viasque. All pores must have their own via by which they allow atoms to mals, of which each perceives for itself its own peculiar object; since we observe that by one sense sounds penetrate into us, by another taste from the juices of food, by another the smell of perfume. Besides, one thing seems to pass through stone, another through wood, another through gold. One substance seems to penetrate silver, and another glass; for through the latter images seem to pass, and through the former heat. One thing, too, seems to penetrate through the same passages quicker than another. This difference, you may be certain, the nature of the passages obliges to exist; since it evidently varies (as we showed a little above) according to the different consistence and texture of bodies. For which reason, since all these points are established and laid down, and every thing prepared and made ready for us, the principle of the magnet will hence, moreover,1 be easily shown, and the whole cause, which attracts the substance of the iron, will be made manifest. In...