• Scientific roots of nature

By WORLD, Vniverse, is meant the Compages or Frame of the whole Creation,* with more especial reference to those Principal and more Gene∣ral parts of which it consists; whether

• SPIRITUAL and immaterial. I.
• Corporeal, considered according to the
  • Parts into which it is divided, whether
  • CELESTIAL. II.
  • Terrestrial: either
    • Inanimate.—
      • LAND. III.
      • WATER. IV.
  • ANIMATE. V.
  • CIRCLES by which it is divided. VI.

• celestial

• land

• WATER
• 3d water forms

Imperfect; such Bodies as grow in Veins of the Earth, which though they are not commonly owned and reckoned under this Rank, yet several Learned men have heretofore reduced them hither, as being a more imperfect kind of Vegetable; because when Mines have seem∣ed to be totally exhausted of them, yet there hath remained behind some kind of Seminal or Spermatic parts, whereby they have in pro∣cess of time been renewed again, and continued to propagate their kinds.

• MINERAL.

Perfect; whether according to the

• General name;
  • PLANT, Vegetable.
• Special kinds; denoting either, that tribe of Plants that are most small, tender and numerous; Or those kinds, amongst these, which are com∣monly fed upon by beasts, &c.
  • HERB, Wort, Weed, Botanic.
  • GRASS, Grase, Greensword.

• ANIMAL, Brute-ish.

• MAN, Woman, Human-ity, Folk.

• celestial circles