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there is not only diſcovered unto us the half part of the World, which was heretofore unknown & hidden, but he hath alſo made manifeſt unto us many wonderful and never-heretofore ſeen, Works and Creatures of Nature, and moreover hath raiſed men, indued with great Wiſdom which might partly renew and reduce all Arts (in this our Age ſpotted and imperfect) to perfection; ſo that finally Man might thereby underſtand his own Nobleneſs and Worth, and why he is called Microcoſmus, and how far his knowledge extendeth in Nature.
Although the rude World herewith will be but little pleaſed, but rather ſmile and ſcoff thereat; alſo the Pride and Covetouſneſs of the Learned is ſo great, it will not ſuffer them to agree together; but were they united, they might out of all thoſe things which in this our Age God doth ſo richly bestow upon us, collect Librum Naturæ, or a perfect Method of all Arts: but ſuch is their oppoſition, that they ſtill keep, and are loth to leave the old course, eſteeming Porphiry, Ariſtotle, and Galen, yea and that
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