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 but by several doses of this Volatil Salt; whole preparation he at larg describeth.

This Book is likely to be forthwith translated into English, to be printed for the Stationer, that taketh care of these Transactions.

His Voluminous Work is divided into Eleven Books; in which the Author having taken some pains to show the Defects and Difficulties in the famous Lullian Art, pretends by a new and Universal Method, that is, by an Artificial Combination of the Subjects of knowledg, to enable men to discourse and dispute, innumerable ways, of every thing proposed, and to acquire a summary and general knowledgeof all things. So that his Combinatory Art, as he cals it, consists chiefly in this, that any subjects being given or proposed, it shews, how often and how many ways they may be combined together, or exchanged, or transposed among themselves.

Of this Art he first shows the Theory, and the Rules, in the first 5 Books; and then in the other 6. he applyes these Rules to Practice by Examples, relating to the several Arts and Sciences.

Of what Use this Doctrine may be for the attainment of knowledg with more case or advantage, the sagacious Reader may judge.