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Was conviacdby manifeft experience; and indeed is wonderful, and may
well bethought incredible unto moft, yet is maintained and afTertcd by
Sennenus De Febnbiis ; and in his fixth book (as I remember ) l>e Murbis a
fafc'mo^ incantationt^ ^ \'emficiis wduBii. I will forbear the names of many
men of fame and credit, Phylicians too, becaufe moft of them are named
("and commonly enough known} by Sewmtm upon this occafion. There
is one, whom I think interiour to none, though perchance not Co commonly
known or read, and that is fieor^ius 1{aqujaiu4 a Venetian, who by his
fir ft education and profeffion wasan Aftrologer, caft many Nativities, and
tookupon'him to Prognofticate; but afterwards confcious tohimfelfof
the vanity of the Art (that is, when the Divcldoth not intermeddle, as alwayes
muft be underftood : for fome Aftrologers have been Magicians
withall, and have doneftrange things) gave it over, and hath writcen againli:
it very Learnedly and Solidly. Read him,if you pleafe^in his Chap-
ters Vc Mi^is^ Ve Oracidus; yea, through his whole Book DeDtvinatme ^2Lnd
you maybclatisfied what he thought of thcfe things : he alfo was a Phy-
fician. But I muft not omit the Learned Author that fet out Mnfrim Vtronenfe^
a great Naturalift and a Phyfician tooj he handles it attheendof
that woik lomewhac roundly and to the quick ,
i muft confeiTe, but very
Rational.yaj^ Solidly, in my judgtnent, ^gainft thofe pretended Peripa-
teticians, tfflfc would be thought to defend the opinion ofjnjhtle herein.
I could fay fomewhat of ancienter Phyficianstoo, and give fome account
of thole many Spels and Charmes that are in Iralliems^ m all his books -
an ancient Phyfician , in high efteeme with lome eminent Phyficians of
theie lace times, as they themfelves have told me^ though not for his
which they had
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