Natural and Experimental History

diture. And yet, we must not demand that anyone dismiss the old things before he is led into the possession of the better. But after the history of Nature and the Arts has been faithfully and copiously collected and digested, and has been, as it were, placed before the eyes of men and explained, the hope is not slight that the great intellects of which we have spoken (such as flourished in the ancient philosophers, and are still not rarely found), since so much heretofore