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

Author: 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]

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

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49791

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## Summary

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 _Hippocrates_[18] advises his Son _Thessalus_ to the study of Geometry and Numbers, because _the Knowledge of the Stars is of very great use in Physick_[19]. And the earliest Histories of Epidemic Distempers, particularly do all turn upon the alterations made in our Bodies by the Heavens.

## Chapters

- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellanea-curiosa-vol-1-containing-a-collection-of-some-of-th-d6244ef3/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellanea-curiosa-vol-1-containing-a-collection-of-some-of-th-d6244ef3/chapters/1/index.md)