Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age

Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742 [Editor]; Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757 [Contributor]; Garden, George, 1649-1733 [Contributor]; Havers, Clopton, -1702 [Contributor]; Mead, Richard, 1673-1754 [Contributor]; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 [Contributor]; Royal Society (Great Britain) [Contributor]; Wallis, John, 1616-1703 [Contributor]· 2 chapters· 7,078 words

That some Diseases are properly the Effects of the Influence of the Heavenly Bodies, and that others do vary their Periods and Symptoms according to the different Positions of one or other of those Luminous Globes, is a very ancient and certain Observation. Upon this score _Hi...

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1. PART I.

That some Diseases are properly the Effects of the Influence of the Heavenly Bodies, and that others do vary their Periods and Symptoms according to the different Positions of o...

2. PART II.

There are no Historys in Physick which we may more safely take upon the Credit of the Authors who relate 'em, than such as we are now going to mention. In some Cases a Point may...