A discovery of infinite treasure, hidden since the worlds beginning. Whereunto all men, of what degree soever, are friendly invited to be sharers with the discoverer / G[abriel] P[lates].

  • Plattes, Gabriel, active 1638-1640.
Date:
[1639]
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Credit: A discovery of infinite treasure, hidden since the worlds beginning. Whereunto all men, of what degree soever, are friendly invited to be sharers with the discoverer / G[abriel] P[lates]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reafons hereafter declared are fufficient to turne Plow-men into Philofophers; and to make them to excell their predecdTors, even as a learned Phyfician excelleth an Empericke. For though many notable improvements have been heretofore found out 3 yet they came more by accident then by good grounds of reafon : yet infinite¬ ly heneficiall, and therefore not to be de- Ipiled : for he that found out the way of fertilizing of Land with Lime or Marie > (though by accident) did a more charita¬ ble deed in pubhfhing thereof- then if he had built all the Hofpitalls in England; for the one feedeth and cloatheth a few hungry and naked perfons ? the other e- nableth an infinite number both to feed and clothe themfelves and others: thefe things have moved me to bellow much time and charges in thefe affaires • deeming my attempt to be the moll excellent that wit can be employed about; for that thefe knowledges are more durable then com¬ mon riches: and no Lawyer can make an