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"the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabick * Languages; and, as we have obferved before of him, in the Life of Alexander Alefius, had he confined "himself to his own Profeffion, the World in all "Probability had been much obliged to him ". Dr. Mackenzie has had in his Hands the firft Book of Servetus, entitled, De Trinitatis Erroribus, and Printed in the Year 1531. I muft acquaint the curious Readers, that they will find an Extract of that Book in the Second Volume † of these Lives: That Extract was made by the Doctor himself.

9. He reckons the Learned Adrian Turnebus among his Countrymen, because he was the Son of a Scotch Gentleman, who married a French Woman in Normandy. He adds, That the true Name of Turnebus was Turnbull, and that it was changed into the French Name Tournebeuf.

10. It appears from thefe Lives, that the Scots have been in all Ages great Travellers. When Dr. Mackenzie gives us an Account of the Birth and Education of the Learned Men of his Country, he generally adds that they went over into France, or into Germany, and Italy, &c. The Scots were highly efteemed in Foreign Countries, and raised to the most confiderable Ecclefiaftical Dignities.

* I don't believe he understood the Arabick Language. I shall hereafter have Occafion to enquire into the Truth of it.

† Pag. 462. & feq.

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ARTICLE XLII.

C. W. OBJECTIONES contra no vam definitionem Motus in Diario Eruditorum Parifienfi †. ተ.

IR quidam doctus Maffiliæ degens in Diario Gallico menfe Majo anni præfentis novam propofuit definitionem motus, cum ab aliis hactenus datæ ipfi non fufficiant, atque Philofophos ad ejus examen invitavit, refponfiones ad objectiones fpondens. Quare Viro Cl. non difpliciturum confido, fi quas contra eam difficultates propofuero. Definitio hæc eft: Motus eft actio corporis aut impreffio in corpore recepta, qua vel alteri corpori reali aut fuppofito propinquare, vel ab eodem elongari poteft. Per genus motum a quiete diftingui arbitratur: differentiam fpecificam talem dare intendit, ut definitio habeat locum, etiam fi unicum corpus in fpatio prorfus vacuo motum exiftere demus. Generis loco ponit actionem corporis aut impreffionem in corpore recep

tam.

Sed nulla concipitur actio corporis fine motu aut fine eo, quod eft reale in motu, conatu nempe feu nifu quo materia inftruitur. Det enim Vir Cl. actionis cujufcunque corporeæ definitionem, facile animadvertet, notas ad actionem unam ab altera ejufdem præfertim corporis diftinguendam non aliunde quam a motu & ejus requifitis defumi poffe.

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2. Multo magis notio impreffionis motum. volvit. Neque enim fieri concipitur nifi per impa&tum corporis A in corpus B. Aft A in B impingere non concipitur, nifi quatenus movetur.

3. Nulla impreffio concipi poteft fine aliquo, quod imprimitur. Quid igitur A, dum impingit in B, ipfi imprimere dicetur? Nonne motum? Patet ergo denuo, genus definitionis definitum invol

vere.

Neque 4 tam impreffio, quam id, quod imprimitur, recipitur,

Et 5 motus non nifi improprie imprimi dicitur, notioni confufæ ab imaginatione fuppeditata convenienter. Unde nolim, definitionem motus philofophicam ingredi voces improprias.

Accedit 6 quod receptio impreffionis, quam Vir doctus generis loco ponit, controverfiam de communicatione motus implicet, quam ex definitione motus excludendam effe non diffitebitur.

Fallitur 7 Vir Cl. dum fibi perfuadet, genus in definitione pofitum motum, a quiete diftinguere. Non jam urgeo, id quod reale eft in motu, nifum nempe corporis, non minus in quiefcente quam in moto deprehendi; fed definitionem ad corpus aliquod quiefcens applico. Ponamus e. g. globum plumbeum ex filo fufpenfum, quo retinetur, ne defcendat. Dum ita quiefcit, continuo verfus centrum terræ nititur adeoque agit, cumque nifus ille ab impulfu ætheris globum perlabentis pendeat, hujus continuo impreffiones (ut cum Viro docto loquar) recipit. Et hac actione, vel recepta ætheris impreffione centro telluris propinquare & a manu tenentis recedere poteft: Acceffus enim ad centrum terræ & receffus à manu tenentis eft effectus illa actione producendus. Unde fi filum, quod renititur, diffecatur; globus actu defcendir.

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Filo autem diffecto, nil globo accedit, quod non ante inerat; fed impedimentum faltem removetur, quod obftat, quo minus potentia ad actum tradu

catur.

Denique 8 cum definitio motus defideretur non tam ad corpora mota a quiefcentibus in vita communi diftinguenda, quam ut inter principia Philofophiæ naturalis referatur, ex quibus alia deducantur; id maxime defidero, quod naturam motus non fatis explicet, nec id, quod eft reale in moru, a phanomeno diftinguat quod difcrimen jam exponere animus non eft.

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ARTICLE XLIII.

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HE following Tables of Sines and Tangents are lately come out.

Tabule Sinuum atque Tangentium tam naturalium quam artificialium, una cum Logarithmis numerorum vulgarium ab 1. ufque ad 10000. numeris quadratis ac cubicis ab 1. ufque ad 1000. Edidit, præfatus eft, & regulam univerfalem folvendi omnia triangula, tam plana quam Sphærica, præmifit Chriftianus Wolfius, in Acad. Frider. Mathem. P. P. & Societatum Regiarum, Britannica atque Boruffice, Sodalis. Hale Magdeburgice 1711. in 8vo.

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LONDON.

HE following Book is lately come into England.

Decreta Romana & Afiatica pro Judæis ad cultum divinum per Afie minoris urbes fecure obeundum, ab Fofepho collecta in Libro XIV. Archeologia, fed male interverfa & expuneta, in publicam lucem utilitatemque reftituta. Accedunt Suide aliquot loca in literis ABTA ab vitiis purgata ex MSS. Codicibus Academie Lugduno-Batave ab Jacobo Gronovio. Lugduni Batavorum, ex Officina Luchtmanniana. MDCCXII. In 8vo. Pagg. 118.

M. Gronovius undertakes to reftore a confiderable Omiffion to be found in all the Printed Copies of Jofephus, in the XVIIth Chapter of the XIVth Book of his Antiquities of the Jews, where feveral Decrees, made by the Romans, and the Cities of Afia, in favour of that People, have been left out. The Jews are allowed by thofe Decrees to have a free Exercise of their Religion in the Cities of Afia Minor, without any Difturbance. This Fragment, published by M. Gronovius, contains feveral Decrees of the Senate of Rome, and of the Delians, Pergamenians, Halicarnaffeans, Sardians, and Ephefians, to which the Editor has added feveral Notes.

Ifaac Voffius complained many Years ago, That there was a great Omiffion in the Chapter of Fofephus above-mentioned; as it appears from the Words of that Learned Man, in his Treatife de Sibyllinis Oraculis, Chap. VIII. Judæos autem (fays "be) magno iftoc tempore numero habitaffe in plerifque fere Afiæ urbibus, patet ex beneficiis a po

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