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.

celestial

LAND. III.

land

WATER. IV.

WATER

WATER BODIES

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.

celestial circles