CORPOREAL WORLD

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. II.

II. Amongst Corporeal Substances, that which is esteemed most Simple and most Perfect, whose general is therefore frequently used to signifie a or a state of the greatest Perfection and Happiness, together with that which in both these respects is opposite, are commonly styled

HELL, Infernal, Stygian.

HEAVEN, Celestial, Firmament, Skie.

General

General ; denoting parts as are more Solid and Luminous.

STARR, Stellate.

Particular kinds

Particular kinds; either

Fixed

Fixed, that is to say, which alwayes keep the same distance from one another. And these, for the better distinction and remembrance of them, are usually distributed into divers parcels or little Aggregates, called Constellations: the received names of which are, according to their imaginary Resemblances, either the proper names of Per∣sons, as Perseus, Andromeda, Orion, &c. or the names of brute Ani∣mals, as Bear, Lion, Ram, &c. or the names of Inanimate things, as , , &c. which may each of them sufficiently expres∣sed, as the things themselves are to which they are resembled, with∣out being particularly provided for in the . And because that great Luminary which rules the Day, with us in this System is, by the most received Hypothesis, thought to belong to this number; there∣fore may it adjoyned, as the most considerable Particular ∣longing to this General.

FIXED STARR, Constellation.

SUN, Solar.

Wandering

Wandring, viz. which not alwaies keep the same distance from one a∣nother; to which may adjoyned that other kind of Luminous , which is now by sufficient observation and experiment discovered to above the Atmosphere; according to the

General names

PLANET, Wandring starr.

COMET, Blazing starr.

Particular kinds of Planets, being either

Primary;

Seen by us at a distance, either more

Frequently,

Higher pair

SATURN-ine.

JUPITER, Iovial.

Lower pair,

MARS.

VENUS, Morning , Evening , Day starr.

Rarely, as being near the ,

MERCURY-ial.

Inhabited by us,

The GLOBE OF SEA AND LAND, , World, Oecu∣menical, Terrestrial, Terrene, Vniverse, Geography.

Secondary; whether moving ‖ about the , or about any other Planet,

MOON, Lunar.

SATELLES.

LAND. III.

III. By EARTH, Land, World,* is meant the habitable parts of this Globe; to which may adjoyned the more general of the Greater parts of the , denoted by the word COUNTRY, Region, Land, Tract, Quarter, Coast.

The most considerable Notions belonging to Discourse, which refer to this, may distinguished with respect to its

figure

Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave.

PLAIN, Champion, Level, Flat, Even.

MOVNTAIN, Hill, Ascent, Rising, Vpland, Downs, Knoll.

VALLEY, Vale, Dale, Bottom.

Boundaries, or adjacent Waters; which are either

On all sides, whether

Great, ‖ more great, or less great.

CONTINENT, Firm-land, Main-land.

ISLAND, Isle, Insular.

Less, ‖ whether roundish and high, or oblong.

ROCK, Cragg.

CLIFF.

On three sides,

On three sides, which, according to a higher or lower situation, as it is conspicuous ‖ more or less, is called

PROMONTORY, Cape, Fore-land, Head-land, Point,

PENE-ISLE.

On two sides, conspicuous, ‖ more or less.

On two sides, conspicuous, ‖ more or less.

ISTHMUS, Streight, Neck of land.

BANK, Shelf, Flat, Ridge, Shallow, Shole,

On one side

On one side, either according to the more general , or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes covered with Sea.

SHORE, Strand, Sea-coast, Bank-side.

WASHES, Sands.

Motion or Rest.

QUICKSANDS, Drift, Syrtis.

OAZ.

WATER. IV.

WATER

WATER BODIES

IV To the word WATER, as it denotes the watry part of this Terre∣strial Globe, may adjoyned the word SEA, Marine, Maritim; which de∣notes the more general of the greater parts of , as Country or Region does of Land.

The more considerable Notions under this Head may distinguished as the other, with respect to its

figures

Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave

AEQUOR, Calm Sea, Smooth Sea.

WAVE, Billow, Surge, Vndulation, Rough.

WHIRL-POOL, Vorago, Gulf, Swallow.

Boundaries, or adjacent Land; which is either

On all sides, whether

Great, more great, or less great.

OCEAN, Main-sea.

LAKE, Meer, Pond, Plash.

Less, whether obround and , or oblong.

WELL, Head.

SPRING, Fountain, Source, Rivulet.

On three sides, greater, or less.

BAY, Gulf, Creek, Arm of the Sea, Harbour, Port, Key.

PENE-LAKE, Haven, Harbour, Port, Key.

On two sides, greater, or less

FRETUM, Streight, Narrow sea, .

CHANNEL.

On one side, either according to the more general , or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower upon the Land.

SHORE, Margo aquea.

TIDE, Ebb, Flow, High-, Low-, Neap-tide, Spring-tide.

Motion or Rest; whether constantly moving, or generally at rest

STREAM, River, Brook, Current, flow, pour, gush, Bourn, Rill, Rivulet, Eddy, Gullet, Flood, Deluge, Inundation, Torrent, Ca∣taract, -course, Running-.

STAGNUM, Pool, Puddle, Pond, stagnate, standing-, Dead-.

ANIMATE. V.

Vegetative, more

Imperfect; Bodies as grow in Veins of the , 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 totally exhausted of them, yet there remained behind some kind of Seminal or Spermatic parts, whereby they have in pro∣cess of renewed again, and continued to propagate their kinds.

MINERAL.

Perfect; whether according to the

General ;

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.

Sensitive

ANIMAL, Brute-.

Rational,

MAN, Woman, -ity, Folk.

CIRCLES by which it is divided. VI.

VI. Besides those General parts into which the World may divided,* there is likewise consideration to had of those Imaginary CIRCLES by which men have agreed to divide both the Celestial and Terrestrial Globe, for the better explaining of the Distances and Motions of the Starrs, and the several Climates of the ; to which may adjoyned for Affinity the Notion of ORBE, Sphere.

These Circles are either

Greater

Greater, dividing the Sphere into two equal parts;

Indeterminately;

Indeterminately; namely that which separates the upper and visible part of the Globe, from that which by reason of its being below us, we cannot see, terminating our vision.

HORIZON-tall.

Determinately; as to

Northern and Southern parts; whether

Directly; wherein the makes every-where equal day and night:

AEQUATOR, Aequinoctial, the Line.

Obliquely, namely, that Line wherein the is supposed constant∣ly to move in its Annual course: to which may adjoyned that Circular superficies, on each side of this, which terminates the motion of the Planets;

ECLIPTIC.

ZODIAC.

Eastern and Western parts; wherein the makes mid-day or mid-night: to which those other Circles correspond which pass through the Poles of the Horizon, as the former through the Poles of the World;

MERIDIAN, Colure.

AZIMUTH.

Lesser

Lesser, dividing the Sphere into two unequal parts; whether

Polar described by the supposed motion of the Poles of the Ecliptic; ‖ ei∣ther Northern or Southern.

ARTIC.

ANTARTIC.

Tropic, terminating the motion of the in its greatest Declination; ‖ Northern, or Southern.

TROPIC of ♋ Summer Solstice.

TROPIC of ♑ Winter Solstice.

Parallels, relating ‖ either to the Aequator, or to the Horizon.

PARALLEL.

ALMACANTAR.