A Table of the Contents.

THE FIRST BOOK.

Of the first cause of common Errors, the common infirmity of human nature.

A farther illustration of the same.

Of the second cause of popular Errors, the erroneous disposition of the people. chap. 3.
Of the nearer causes of common errors both in the wiser and common sort; misapprehension, fallacy or false deduction, credulity, supinity, adherence unto Antiquity, Tradition and Authority, contained in the following Chapters.
Of mistake, misapprehension, fallacy or false deduction.

Of credulity and supinity.

Of obstinate adherence unto antiquity.

Unto Authority.

Of Authors who have most promoted popular conceits.

Of others indirectly effecting the same.

Of the last and great promoter of false opinions, the endeavours of Satan. c. 10, 11.

THE SECOND BOOK.

THE common Tenet that Crystal is nothing else but Ice strongly congealed.

Concerning the Loadstone, of things particularly spoken thereof evidently or probably true: of things generally believed or particularly delivered evidently or probably false. Of the magnetical virtue of the earth. Of the four motions of the stone; that is, its verticity or direction, its coition or attraction, its declination, variation, and also of its Antiquity.

A Rejection of sundry opinions and relations thereof, Natural, Medical, Historical, Magical.

Of bodies Electrical in general.
Of Jet and Amber in particular, that they attract all light bodies, except Basil, and bodies oiled.

Compendiously of several other Tenets.
That a Diamond is made soft, or broke by the blood of a Goat.
That glass is poison, and of malleable glass.
Of the cordial quality of Gold in substance or decoction.
That a pot full of ashes will contain as much water as it would without them.
Of white powder that kills without report.
That Coral is soft under water, but hardens in the air.