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
FINIS.