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The CONTENTS of the FIRST
TOME.
| PART THE FIRST. | ||
| Treatise I. | GALILEUS GALILEUS, his Systeme of the World: in Four Dialogues. | |
| II. | His Epistle to her Serene Highnesse CHRISTIANA LOTHERINGA GRAND DUTCHESSE of TUSCANY, touching the Ancient and Modern Doctrine of holy Fathers, and Judicious Divines, concerning the Authority of sacred Scripture in phylosophical Controversies. | |
| III. | JOHANNES KEPLERUS, his Reconcilings of Texts of sacred scripture that seem to oppose the Doctrine of the Earths mobility: abstracted from his Introduction unto his learned Commentaries upon the Planet MARS. | |
| IV. | DIDACUS a STUNICA, a learned Spanish divine, his Reconcilings of the said Doctrine with the Texts of sacred Scripture; abstracted from his Commentarie upon JOB. | |
| V. | PAULUS ANTONIUS FOSCARINUS, a Carmelite, his Epistle to SEBASTIANUS FANTONUS, the General of his Order, concerning the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion of the mobility of the Earth, and stability of the Sun; and of the new Systeme or constitution of the World: in which he reconcileth the Texts of sacred Scripture, and Assertions of Divines, commonly alledged against this Opinion. | |
| A Table of the most observable Persons and Matters mentioned in the First Part. |
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| PART THE SECOND. | ||
| I. | D. BENEDICTUS CASTELLUS, Abbot of S. Benedictus Aloysius, his Discourse of the mensuration of Running Waters: The First Book. | |
| II. | His Letter to GALILEUS, representing the state of the Lake of Perugia in Tuscany. | |
| III. | His geometrical demonstrations of the Measure of Running Waters. | |
| IV. | His Discourse of the mensuration of Running Waters: The Second Book. | |
| V. | His Considerations concerning the Lake of Venice. In two discourses. | |
| VI. | His Rule for computing the quantity of mud and sand that Land-Floods bring down to, and leave in the Lake of VENICE. | |
| VII. | His Letter to Father FRANCESCO di S. GIVSEPPE, wherein, at the instance of PRINCE LEOPALDO, he delivereth his judgment concerning the turning Fiume Morto (a River near Pisa in Tuscany) into the Sea, and into the River Serchio. | |
| VIII. | His second Letter in answer to certain Objections proposed, and Difficulties observed by Signore BARTOLOTTI, in that affair of the Diversion of Fiume Morto. | |
| IX. | His Consideration upon the draining of the pontine Fenns in CALABRIA. | |
| X. | His Consideration upon the Draining of the Territories of BOLOGNA, FERRARA, and ROMAGNA. | |
| XI. | His Letter to D. FERRANTE CESARINI, applying his Doctrine to the mensuration of the length, and distribution of the quantity of the Waters of Rivers, Springs, Aqueducts, &c. | |
| XII. | D. CORSINUS, Superintendent of the general drains, and President of ROMAGNA, his Relation of the state of the Waters in the Territories of BOLOGNA and FERRARA. | |
| A Table of the most observable Persons and Matters mentioned in the Second Part. | ||
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