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Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Title: The philosphical and physical opinions written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle.
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Print source: The philosphical and physical opinions written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle.
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
London: Printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye ..., 1655.
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Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Science -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE LADY MARQVESSE OF NEVVCASTLE, On her Book intitled her Philosophicall, and Physicall Opinions.
AN EPISTLE To justifie the LADY NEW CASTLE, AND Truth against falshood, laying those false, and malicious aspersions of her, that she was not Authour of her BOOKS.
TO THE READER.
TO THE TWO UNIVERSITIES.
AN EPILOGE TO MY PHILOSOPHICAL OPINIONS.
AN EPISTLE TO MY HONOURABLE READERS.
AN EPISTLE TO THE Reader, for my Book of Philosophy.
AN EPISTLE TO MY READERS.
AN EPISTLE TO MY READERS.
A CONDEMNING TREATISE OF ATOMES.
THE OPINION, or RELIGION OF THE OLD PHILOSOPHERS.
THE TEXT TO MY Natural Sermon.
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OF MATTER AND MOTION.
CHAP. I.
Chap. 2. Of the Form and the Minde.
Chap. 3. Eternal matter.
Chap. 4. Of Infinite matter.
Chap. 5. No proportion in Nature.
Chap. 6. Of one Kinde of Matter.
Chap. 7. Of Infinite knowledge.
Chap. 8. No Judge in Nature.
Chap. 9. Of Perfection.
Chap. 10. Of Inequalities.
Chap. 11. Of Unities.
Chap. 12. There is no Vacuity.
Chap. 13. Of Thin, and Thick Matter.
Chap. 14. Of Vacuum.
Chap. 15. The Unity of Nature.
Chap. 16. Of Division.
Chap. 17. The Order of Nature.
Chap. 18. Of War, and no absolute Power.
Chap. 19. Of Power.
Chap. 20. Similizing the spirits, or Innate Matter.
Chap. 21. Of Operation.
Chap. 22. Natural, or Sensivtie War.
Chap. 23. Of Annihilation.
Chap. 24. LIFE.
Chap. 25. Of CHANGE.
Chap. 26. Of Youth, or Growth.
Chap. 27. Of Increasing.
Chap. 28. Of Decay.
Chap. 29. Of Dead, and Death.
Chap. 30. Of Local Shapes.
Chap. 31. The Visible Motion in Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals.
Chap. 32. Of the Working of several Motions of Nature.
Of the Minde.
Chap. 34. Of their several Dances, or Figures.
Chap. 35. The Sympathy, and Antipathy of Spirits.
Chap. 36. The Sympathy of Sensitive, and Rational spirits in one Figure.
Chap. 37. The Sympathy of the Rational and Sensitive Spi∣rits, to the Fgure they make, and inhabit.
Chap. 38. Pleasure, and Pain.
Chap. 39. Of the Minde.
Chap. 40. Of Thinking, or the Minde, and Thoughts.
Chap. 41. Of the Motions of the Spirits.
Chap. 42. Of the Creation of the Animal Figure.
Chap. 43. The gathering of Spirits.
Chap. 44. The moving of Innate matter.
Chap. 45. Of Matter, Motion, and Knowledge, or Understanding.
Chap. 46. Of the Animal Figure.
Chap. 47. What an Animal is.
Chap. 48. Of the dispersing of the Rational Spirits.
Chap. 49. Of the Senses.
Chap. 50. Of Motion that makes Light.
Chap. 51. Opticks.
Chap. 52. Of Motion, and Matter.
Chap. 53. Of the Brain.
Chap. 54. Of Darknesse.
Chap. 55. Of the Sun.
Chap. 56. Os the Clouds.
Chap. 57. Of the Motion of the Planets.
Chap. 58. The Motion of the Sea.
AN EPISTLE TO CONDEMNING READERS.
OF FORTUNE.
CHAP. 59.
Chap. 60. Of time and Nature.
Chap. 61. Of Matter, Motion, and Figure.
Chap. 62. Of Causes, and effects.
Chap. 63. Whether motion is a thing, or nothing, or can be Annihilated
Chap. 64. Of Motions.
Chap. 65. Many motions go to the producing of one thing, or to one end.
Chap. 66. Of the six principal motions.
Chap. 67. Of Exterior Motions produced from the six principle Motions.
Chap. 68. Of double motions at one and the same time, on the same matter.
Chap. 69. Of the several strengths.
Chap. 70. The creations of Figures, and difference of Motions.
Chap. 71. The Agilenesse of innated Matter:
Chap. 72. Of external, and internal figures and Motions.
Chap. 73. Of repeating one and the same work, and of varieties.
Chap. 74. Of creation, and dissolving of Nature.
Chap. 75. Of Gold.
Chap. 76. Of Sympathies, and Antipathies, which is to agree, or disagree, to joyn, or to crosse.
Chap. 77. Of different knowledge in different figures.
Chap. 78. The advantages of some figures, some de∣grees of matter, and motions, over others.
Chap. 79. Of the figurative figures.
Chap. 80. Of the gloomy figures, and figures of parts, and of one piece.
Chap. 81. Of the dull and innated matter.
Chap. 82. An answer to an old question, what becomes of the shape, or figure, or outward forms of the old figure, when the nature takes a new form.
Chap. 83. Of Transmigrations.
Chap. 84. Of metamorphosing of Animals and Vegetables.
Chap. 85. The Metamorphosing of the exterior forms, of some figures.
AN EPISTLE TO THE Unbeleeving Readers IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Earth Metamorphosed into water, water Me∣tamorphosed to vapor, Aire and fire, at least into heat.
CHAP. 86.
Chap. 87. Of wetnesse.
Chap. 88. Of Circles.
Chap. 89. Of Softnesse.
Chap. 90. Of Liquors.
Chap. 91. The extention and contraction of circles.
Chap. 92. Of congealed water.
Chap. 93. Motion changing the figure from wa∣ter to fire.
Chap. 94. Of Oyl.
Chap. 95. Of Metals.
Chap. 96. Of the Load-stone.
Chap. 96. Of the needle.
Chap. 98. Of stone.
Chap. 99. Of burning.
Chap. 100. Of different burning.
Chap. 101. Fires transformation.
Chap. 102. Of such sorts of heating Motions, as cause burning, melting, boiling, Evaporating and rarifying.
Chap. 103. Of quenching of fire.
Chap. 104. Of the quenching of fire, and evaporated Water.
Chap. 105. Of a bright-shining hot, glowing, fire.
Chap. 106. Of the drinesse of hot, burning, bright, shi∣ning fire.
Chap. 107. Of moist colds, and moist heats, of dry colds, and dry heats &c.
Chap. 108. Of the motions of cold, and heat, drouth, and Moisture.
Chap. 109. Of dry heats, and cold, and of moist heats and colds.
Chap. 110. Of shining figures.
Chap. 111. The motions that make natural air, and day light.
Chap. 112 Of light.
Chap. 113. The reflections of light.
Chap. 114. Of light, and reflections.
Chap. 115. Of some opinions of light, darknesse, and Death.
Chap. 116. Of darknesse.
Chap. 117. The motions that make Darknesse.
Chap. 118. Of Shadows.
Chap. 119. Of shadows and airie figures.
Chap. 120. Of a more probable opinion to me of light making several colours.
Chap. 121. Of Colours.
Chap. 122. Of airy figures.
Chap. 123. Of External figures, and internal forms.
Chap. 124. Earth, water, air, fire, cold, heat, light, darknesse.
Chap. 125. The motions of the Sun, and Planets.
Chap. 126. Of the motions and figures of the four na∣tural Elements.
Chap. 127. The reason of the ebbing and flowing of the sea thus.
Chap. 128. Describing the tides.
Chap. 229. Of double tides.
Chap. 130. Ofspring Tides.
Chap. 131. The tide and stream flowing against each other.
Chap. 132. The difference of salt water and fresh water.
Chap. 133. Of winde.
Chap. 134. Of the noise of Tempest and storms.
Chap. 135. Of thunder and lightning.
Chap. 136. Of the alterations of motions.
Chap. 137. Of different motions.
Chap. 138. Of the local motions of water, air, and fire.
Chap. 139. Explanations of onely Matter.
Chap. 140. The differences and alterations of figures.
Chap. 141. Of several worlds.
AN EPISTLE TO ALL Learned PHYSITIANS.
AN EPISTLE TO MY READERS.
OF THE MOTION OF THE BODIE.
CHAP. 141.
Cap. 142. The frame of mans body.
Chap. 143. Of natural self-tyrannie.
Chap. 144. The two ground motions amongst the rational innate matter.
Chap. 145. The two chief parts belonging to man, is the head, and the heart, wherein resides the rational spirits.
Chap. 146. Whether the passions are made in the head or heart.?
Chap. 147. Of different passions in one and the same part.
Chap. 148. The affinity betwixt imaginations and passions.
Chap. 149. Of the Brain.
Chap. 150. Of the multitude of figures amongst the rational matter in the brain and heart.
Chap. 151. Of thoughts.
Chap. 152. Of thinking, or thoughts.
Chap. 153. Of sleep and dreams.
Chap. 154. Dreamings of living, and dead figures.
Chap. 155. Of Local Dreames.
Chap. 156. Of the senses, and the objects that pass through the senses.
Chap. 157. Of figure presented to the senses, and figures together.
Chap. 158. Of objects, and the senses, something differing from the other Chapter.
Chap. 159. Of the figure of the head.
Chap. 160. Of Sight.
Chap. 161 Of Light and Colours.
Chap. 162. Of Blindnesse.
Chap. 163. Of Hearing.
Chap. 164. Of Articular sounds, or sounds without distinction.
Chap. 165. Of taste, touch, and smell.
Chap. 166. Of Touch.
Chap. 167. Of the pores of the body.
THE NATVRAL VVARS IN ANIMAL FIGVRES.
CHAP. 167.
Chap. 168. Of the four natural Humours of the Body, and those that are inbred.
Chap. 169 The five natural Maladies of the body.
Chap. 170. I will treat first of the motions that make sicknesse.
Chap. 171. Of the motions which cause pains.
Chap. 172. Of swiming or dissiness in the head.
Chap. 173. Where the brain turns round, or not in the head.
Chap. 174. Of the sound or noise in the head.
Chap. 175. Of Weakness.
Chap. 176. Of numb and dead palsies.
Chap. 177. Of that we call a sleepy numbness.
Chap. 178. Of the head feeling numb.
Chap. 179. The manner of motion, or disorder in madness.
Chap. 180. Of madnesse in the body and minde.
Chap. 181. Madnes is not alwayes about the head.
Chap. 182. Musick may cure mad folks.
Chap. 183. Of the fundamental diseases, first of fe∣vours.
Chap. 185. Of the infections of animals, Vegetables, and elements.
Chap. 186. Of burning fevros.
Chap. 187. The remedies of Malignant Diseases.
Chap. 134. Diseases caused by conceit, or cured.
Chap. 188. Of the expelling malignity to the outward parts of the body.
Chap. 189. Of Sweating diseases.
Chap. 190. Of Surfeits.
Chap. 191. Of Consumptions.
Chap. 192. Of dropsies.
Chap. 193. Of apoplexies.
Chap. 194. Of Epilepses, which is called falling∣sicknesse.
Chap. 195. Of Shaking Palsies.
Chap. 196. Of Convulsions, and Cramps.
Chap. 197. Of Collicks.
Chap. 198. Of the diseases in the head, and vapors to the head.
Chap. 199. Of catching cold.
Chap. 200. Of the several motions in an animal body.
Chap. 201. Of the several tempers of the body.
Chap. 202. The nature of purging medicines.
Chap. 103. The motion of Medicines.
Chap. 204. Agreeing, and disagreeing of humours, senses, and passions.
Chap. 205. Of outward objects disagreeing with the natural motions, and humours in the body.
Chap. 206. Of the inward sense, and outward sense, as the interior and exterior parts.
Chap. 207. The sympathies and antipathies of sound to the minde and actions.
Chap. 208. The knowledge of diseases.
Chap. 209. To my just Readers.
Chap. 210. The diatical Centers.
epilogue
ERRATA.