Observations, naturall and morall with a short treatise of the numbers, weights, and measures used by the Hebrews, with the valuation of them according to the measures of the Greeks and Romans : for the clearing of sundry places of Scripture in which these weights and measures are set downe by way of allusion / by Iohn Weemse ...

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Author:	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.
Title:	Observations, naturall and morall with a short treatise of the numbers, weights, and measures used by the Hebrews, with the valuation of them according to the measures of the Greeks and Romans : for the clearing of sundry places of Scripture in which these weights and measures are set downe by way of allusion / by Iohn Weemse ...
Print source:	Observations, naturall and morall with a short treatise of the numbers, weights, and measures used by the Hebrews, with the valuation of them according to the measures of the Greeks and Romans : for the clearing of sundry places of Scripture in which these weights and measures are set downe by way of allusion / by Iohn Weemse ... Weemes, John, 1579?-1636. Printed at London: By T. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold by Benjamine Allen in Popes head Alley, 1633.
Notes:	Signatures: [A]4(-[A]1) B-I8 K9. Errors in paging: p. 85-92 misnumbered 49-56. Reproduction of original in the St. John's College (University of Oxford). Library.
Subject terms:	Bible and science. Cosmology.
URL:	https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14910.0001.001
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NATVRALL OBSERVATIONS.

CHAP. 1. Of the foure Elements.

CHAP. II. How the earth hangeth upon nothing.

CHAP. III. That the earth is the basest of all the Elements.

CHAP. IIII. Of the situation of the Elements.

CHAP. V. That the waters come from the sea, and returne to the sea againe.

CHAP. VI. Whether the Windes have any weight or not?

CHAP. VII. Whether the water or the fire be the more excellent Element.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Meteors, the dew, and the Spirituall appli∣cations of it.

CHAP. IX. Of bodies perfectly composed, and first of the met∣talls.

CHAP. IX. Of the diverse names that gold hath in the Scrip∣ture.

CHAP. XI. Why the Children are sayd to come out of their fa∣thers thigh.

CHAP. XII. That a woman giveth seed in generation as well as the man.

CHAP. XIII. How old some of Christs predecessors were when they begot children.

CHAP. XV. Jn what part of the body the soule lodgeth.

CHAP. XVI. What things the Midwife doth to the child when it is new borne.

CHAP. XVII. That the mother should nourish her owne chil∣dren.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the weaning of Children.

CHAP. XIX. Whether the Sight or the Hearing be the better sense.

CHAP. XX. Whether the phantasie bringeth forth reall effects or not.

CHAP. XXI. How the Hebrewes distinguished the ages of man.

CHAP. XXII. Whether death be naturall to a man or not?

MORALL OB∣SERVATIONS.

CHAP. I. Of two evils, the least is to be chosen.

CHAP. II. Of friendship.

CHAP. III. Sinfull love degenerateth into hatred.

CHAP. V. Of Liberalitie.

CHAP. VI. Of Contentment.

CHAP. VII. De connexione virtutum.

EXERCITAT. Of Numbers Weights and Measures.

Of Measures.

Of Liquid Measures.

Of Weights.