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Impotency may also be divided into natural and accidental; the former being that which a person is born with, or which proceeds ex vitio naturalis temperamenti vel partium genitalium; and the latter that which arises from some accident, as ex casu vel morbo.

Pliny, Naturalis Historia xxviii. 33 sq. Rev. Pliny, Naturalis Historia, xxix. 52-54. Compare W.W. Skeat, "Snakestones and Stone Thunderbolts," Folk-lore, xxiii. pp. 45 sqq. The rings thus generated, are called Gleineu Nadroeth; in English, Snake-stones.

To discover several of these perturbations, to assign their nature, and in a few rare cases their numerical values, such was the object which Newton proposed to himself in writing the Principia Mathematica Philosophiæ Naturalis. Notwithstanding the incomparable sagacity of its author the Principia contained merely a rough outline of the planetary perturbations.

It will prove not without interest before entering into the real history of the telegraph to pass in review the various documents that relate to the subject. In continuation of the 21st chapter of his Magia naturalis, published in 1553, J. B. Porta cites an experiment that had been made with the magnet as a means of telegraphing.

The progress of his work was, however, interrupted by a visit of five or six weeks which he made in Lincolnshire; but he proceeded with such diligence on his return that he was able to transmit the manuscript to London before the end of April. This manuscript, entitled Philosophic Naturalis Principia Mathematics and dedicated to the society, was presented by Dr.

However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded 'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulce causa, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the influence of 'Liber Pater'; nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his 'Historia Naturalis. No, sir, I distinguish, I discriminate, and approve of wine so far only as it maketh glad the face, or, in the language of Flaccus, recepto amico.

The most popular eighteenth-century speculation as to the ultimate constitution of matter was that of the learned Italian priest, Roger Joseph Boscovich, published in 1758, in his Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis.

It will be seen at a glance that the above is the most important of Bacon's works. The Organum was to be in several books, only two of which he completed, and these he wrote and rewrote twelve times until they satisfied him. Historic Naturalis et Experimentalis, the study of all the phenomena of nature.

The horror naturalis which protects the great majority of women from the wilder ways of passion was in her weakened or dormant. She was the illegitimate child of a mother who had defied law for love, and of that fact she had been conscious all her life. A sharp contempt, indeed, arose within her for the interpretation that the common mind would be sure to place upon her action. "What matter!

Vitruvius, De Architectura. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, xxxvi. Pausanias, Ἑλλαδος