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HOSE who have treated of natural piloophy, may be nearly reduced to three claes. Of thee ome have been attributed to the everal pecies of things, pecific and occult qualities; on which, in a manner unknown, they make the operations of the everal bodies to depend. The um of the doctrine of the Schools derived from Aritotle and the Peripatetics is herein contained. They affirm that the everal effects of the bodies arie from the particular natures of thoe bodies