“ Chap. 6. The Author considering; that Vincenzo Viviani in Book De Maximis & Minimis found, that if there were innumerable Parabolas described, having the same Axis and Vertex common, if from any point in that Axis, the shortest Lines were drawn to those Parabola's, all those points of Incidence would fall in an Ellipsis; and the Authors Analysis taught him, that the Prop. was Universal, wheresoever the point be assigned, from which the least lines are to be drawn; which he hath extended, and applyed to those infinite sorts of other Parabola's. ”

“ If the root produce too many branches or arms, cut away the weakest of them, and leave none but 3. or 4. of the strongest and most vigorous, and such as have their knots nearest to one another. When I transplant my Melons from the Nursery-bed, I put commonly two roots together, except I find one very strong, which I then plant alone, cutting from it neither of the branches that shoot from each side (mark't 7.7.) ”

“ I also take care, to leave none but fair ones, and such as have a short and thick tail. The foot also of your Melon must be short, well truss'd, and not far distant from the ground. Melons of a long stem, and having the stalk of the Leaf too long and slender, are never vigorous, and cannot yield good Melons.
It happens sometimes, that at the very first there shoot out from between the two Ears, two Leaves, though I above spoke but of one; but this happens but seldom, and when it does, such two leaves must be reckon'd but for one knot ”

“ Too great heat patches them too much to take nourishment well; and this you must take care of. He that is curious, must every day walk often in his Melon-garden, to cut off all the branches, which he shall observe to be useless, or hurtful, You'l find of them to shoot forth almost to the Eye, and they are capable to alter all, if it be not remedied in time.
I must not forget to tell you, that from the midst betwixt the two Ears and the two first Leaves there shoots out yet one branch more, which ought to be kept, if vigorous, but cut, if weak. ”

“ Possibly, if they shall have a desire to search into the Causes of these over-hot ferments, and of the slow-pac'd duller Earth, they may happily fin unexpected Treasures in their own private Inclosures. ”

“ Now this I would represent. 'Tis certain, some Bodies do increase their weight in a strong Fire: See the Experiment in the said Hist. of the R. Society, p, 228. And Honorable Mr Boyle hath proved, That even Solid and Coldest Bodies have their Atmospheres; Some their Electricity; and same their Magnetismes: And 'tis palpahle, that some draw more Aliment, either from the Earth, or from subterraneous Liquors, or Spirits, or from the Nutritious parts of the Air, or other Influences, which descend through the Air, than they expend in their Atmospheres ”

“ And doubtless all Civil Nations, who have a Gust for useful knowledge, will, in good time, drive on this Example; and then, as the Light increaseth, and runs on, we shall in a like proportion become so many mutual Ayds to each other: And that will hopefully redound to the General good of Mankind. ”

“ Rendring also the Cause, Why all the Glanduls in the Abdomen and in all the lower parts of the Body do deposite their Lympha or Juyce into the Common great Receptacle of the Chyle, and Why that Receptacle is plac'd between the Tendons of the Daphragime; as also, Why those Channels, which convey the Chyle into the Subclavial Vein, are double. To which he adds, That all the Chyle is by the Ductus Thoracicus alone transmitted into the Bloud and Heart, which he proveth by several considerable Experiments, with some reflexion on the Bilsian Experiment alledged for the contrary. ”

“ And we see by Experience, that peculiar Earths, Fullers Earth, Tarras for Vessels, and some kinds of Stones, and of Mineral Ores, have their real Increase of Substance in their times of Seasons, and proper plane. Many Noble Persons are Lovers of Gardens, and are willing to entertain Exoticks ”

“ And though we should fail of the Particulars, yet thence we may chance to dive into some Secrets of very useful Philosophy, and find other Influences, than are either Electrical, or in the common sense Magnetical, but pregnant to disclose the Causes, and to remove the Defects of Fertility, and to impart other no less valuable vertues. ”

“ And now, I think, we may take our Prospect, and see, that we have got more ground in our second Volume than in the first and more yet in the third than in either of the former; whence we take the liberty to ominate well for the future. ”

“ Where he takes occasion to make it out, that the Motion of Muscles is not caus'd by their being inflated, nor by any Explosion of the Spirits passing through them, out after the manner, as two men taking one another by their hands, draw themselves close together into mutual embraces: Whence he goes on to shew That the whole Motion of the Heart consists indeed in the Systole, that of the Diastole being onely a Motion of Restitution. ”

“ And sometimes the Natural surface is so sillen, as to swallow and devour the richest Compost, before it rewards the industrious Husbandman or Gardner: And some do highly pretend to make by Art Nitri-fodinas perpetuas ”

“ And here were added more Instruments of Art, some newly devised, as an Instrument for Measuring the Diameters of Planets to great exactness. We offered fuller Directions for Sea-voyages; collected divers Anomatical researches; related many odd effects of the Transfusion of Bloud, and of Medicins into the Veins of Animals, a deeper Investigation and further Accompts of Respiration; a dissected Animal preserv'd alive by the Wind of Bellows; the Influence of Air upon the Life and Growth of Vegetables, upon Luminous Bodies, and Burning Coal, &c. ”

“ And all that have affection for Arts and Sciences may rejoyce to see the late Proficiency of the Ingenious and Nobler Students in both our famous Universities, and tn all the Universities of Christendom. ”

“ Whether Evergreens, the most fragrant or strong-senting, hot or cold Plants, draw more of their substance from the free Air; and which draw more from the subterraneal supplyes, And so we may examine Earths ”

“ That as the Motion-of the Heart and Bloud is Circular, so the Fibres, as tke Moving Engines of them, are about the Cone of the Heart brought into a Circle and Center: That the Motion in the Muscles is not like Shooting, but Fencing ”

“ What Repute he hath among the Learned, needs not to be insisted on. The famous Pascal Or Dettonville in a Letter to this Author, saith (to give it in English;) I believe, that to make it known that 'tis You, who hath round (for Example) this Parabola, which is the Place, than gives the Dimenlions of the Surfaces of the Solids of the Cycloid about the Base, it must be I, that must tell the World so ”