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Averroeana : being a transcript of several letters from Averroes an Arabian philosopher at Corduba in Spain, to Metrodorus a young Grecian nobleman, student at Athens in the years 1149 and 1150 : also several letters from Pythagoras to the King of India, together with his reception at the Indian court, and an account of his discourse with the King, and his gymnosophists, and his rules and precepts : his account of the power and efficacy of numbers, and magical uses thereof : to which is prefixt, a Latin letter by Monsieur Grinau, one of the Messieurs du Port Royal in France, to the ingenius Monsieur Gramont, merchant at Amsterdam, concerning the subject of these papers, and how they came to his hands : the whole containing matters highly philosophical, physiological, Pythagorical and medicinal, the work having been long conceal'd is now put into English for the benefit of mankind, and the rectification of learned mistakes.
Averroës, 1126-1198Date: 1695- Books
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A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures of friendship : with rules of conducting it : in a letter to M.K.P. : to which are added Two letters to persons changed in religion : also Three letters to a gentleman that was tempted to the communion of the Romish Church / written by Jer. Taylor.
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667Date: 1671- Books
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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681- Books
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The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. The third edition. By Hannah Woolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1682- Books
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The aerial noctiluca, or, Some new phœnomena, and a process of a factitious self-shining substance : imparted in a letter to a friend living in the country / by the honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1680- Books
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Miscellanies, or Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster / published and many of them translated into English by the care and industry of John Twysden.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1659- Books
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New experiments upon vipers : with exquisite remedies that may be drawn from them, as well for the cure of their bitings, as for that of other maladies : also A letter of Francisco Redi, concerning some objections made upon his observations about vipers, written to Monsieur Bourdelot and Mr. Alex. Morus : together with the sequel of new experiments upon vipers, in a reply to a letter written by Sign. F. Redi / by M. Charas ; now rendred English.
Charas, Moyse, 1619-1698Date: 1673- Books
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[A letter sent to J. Clutton].
Ward, William, medical practitionerDate: [1736]- Books
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Henry Cornelius Agrippa his fourth book of occult philosophy : Of geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy. The nature of spirits. Arbatel of magick. / Translated into English by Robert Turner, philomathes.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535Date: 1655- Books
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Wits interpreter, the English Parnassus : or, a sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse, or writing. In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love are made easie in the following subjects. I. The art of reasoning, a new logick. 2. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 3. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall love-songs, epigrams, drolleries, and other verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, description of beauty. 6. The muses Elizium, severall poeticall fictions. 7. The perfect inditer, letters ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's [sic] Key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabeticall table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. By I.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: 1655- Books
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An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1692 : Being the bissextil or leap-year, and from the creation 5692. Calculated for the meridian of the centre or middle of England, whose latitude is 54 deg. And therefore far more usefull for the kingdom in general, than any other extant. By W. Turner, Gent. In this almanack are contained these particluars. 1. A description of England, and a general tide-table. 2. A chronology of memorable things. 3. The sun's rising, setting, length of the day & night, and his place in the ecliptick, and break of day. 4. The change, full and quarters of the moon, with the time that every planet meets with the moon. 5. Choice rules for husbandry and gardening. 6. Presidents for making bills, bonds, wills, leases, &c. 7. Tables for interest of money, and for the purchasing of lands or leases of houses. 8. To measure and set out land, --- 9. To gauge vessels. - 10. And to find the hour of the day by the sun.
Turner, W. (William), active 1687-1701Date: 1692- Books
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A moste fruitfull, pithie, and learned treatyse, how a Christian man ought to behaue himselfe in the danger of death : and how they are to be rele[-]ued and comforted, whose deare freendes are departed out of this world, moste necessarye for this our vnfortunate age and sorrowfull dayes.
Werdmüller, Otto, 1511-1552Date: [1595?]- Books
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke. / By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1660- Books
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An almanack for an age : for finding the day of the month. dominicall letter. prime. and epact. with other usefull remarques. By John Seller hydrographer to the King.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698Date: [1684]- Books
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Letters to a sick friend : containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M.
Marlow, John, 1648-1695Date: 1682- Books
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Elements of speech : an essay of inquiry into the natural production of letters: with an Appendix concerning persons deaf and dumb. By William Holder, D.D. Fellow of the R. society.
Holder, William, 1616-1698Date: 1677- Books
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A philosophical endeavour in the defence of the being of witches and apparitions : with some things concerning the famous Greatrek's. / Written in a letter to the much honoured Robert Hunt, esq.
Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680Date: 1668..- Books
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Salt-water sweetned, or, A true account of the great advantages of this new invention both by sea and by land : together with a full and satisfactory answer to all apparent difficulties : also the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians : likewise a Letter of the Honourable Robert Boyle to a friend upon the same subject.
Fitzgerald, R. (Robert), 1638?-1698Date: 1684- Books
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A letter to a gentleman concerning alkali and acid : being an answer to a late piece, intituled, A letter to a physician concerning acid and alkali : to which is added A specimen of a new hypothesis for the sake of the lovers of medicine / by Thomas Emes.
Emes, Thomas, -1707Date: [1700]- Books
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Salt-water sweetned, or, A true account of the great advantages of this new invention both by sea and by land : together with a full and satisfactory answer to all apparent difficulties : also the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians : likewise a letter of the Honourable Robert Boyle to a friend upon the same subject.
Fitzgerald, R. (Robert), 1638?-1698Date: 1683- Books
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Preparation for death : Being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper, of which she died. By William Wake, M.A.
Wake, William, 1657-1737Date: 1688- Books
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Preparation for death : Being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper, of which she died. By William Wake, M.A.
Wake, William, 1657-1737Date: 1688- Books
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Preparation for death : Being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper, of which she died. By William Wake, M.A.
Wake, William, 1657-1737Date: MDCXCIX [1699]