Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted

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Of the World.
Of the Figure of the World.
Whether the World be an Animal.
Whether the World is Eternal and Incorruptible.
Whence does the World receive its Nutriment?
From what Element God did begin to raise the Fabric of the World.
In What Form and Order the World was Composed.
What is the Cause of the World’s Inclination.
Of that Thing which is Beyond the World, and whether it be a Vacuum or not.
What Parts of the World are on the Right Hand, and what on the Left.
Of Heaven, what is its Nature and Essence.
Into how many Circles is the Heaven Distinguished; or, of the Division of Heaven.
What is the Essence of the Stars, and how they are Composed.
Of what Figure the Stars are.
Of the Order and Place of the Stars.
Of the Motion and Circulation of the Stars.
Whence do the Stars receive their Light?
What are those Stars which are called the Dioscuri, The Twins, or Castor and Pollux?
How Stars Prognosticate, and what is the Cause of Winter and Summer.
Of the Essence of the Sun.
Of the Magnitude of the Sun.
What is the Figure or Shape of the Sun.
Of the Turning and Returning of the Stars, or the Summer and Winter Solstice.
Of the Eclipse of the Sun.
Of the Essence of the Moon.
Of the Size of the Moon.
Of the Figure of the Moon.
From whence is it that the Moon receives Her Light?
Of the Eclipse of the Moon.
Of the Phases of the Moon, or the Lunar Aspects; or How it comes to pass that the Moon appears to us Terrestrial.
How far the Moon is removed from the Sun.
Of the Year, and how many Circulations make up the Great Year of Every Planet.

Of the Overflowing of the Nile.
Of the Soul.
Whether the Soul be a Body, and what is the Nature and Essence of it.
Of the Parts of the Soul.
What is the Principal Part of the Soul, and in what part of the Body it resides.
Of the Motion of the Soul.
Of the Soul’s Immortality.
Of the Senses, and of those Things which are Objects of the Senses,
Whether what Appears to our Senses and Imaginations be True or Not.
How many Senses are there?
How the Actions of the Senses, the Conceptions of our Minds, and the Habit of our Reason are Formed.
What is the difference between Imagination, the Imaginable, Fancy, and Phantom?
Of our Sight, and by what means we See.
Of those Images which are presented to our Eyes in Mirrors.
Whether Darkness can be Visible to us.
Of Hearing.
Of Smelling.
Of Taste.
Of the Voice.
Whether the Voice is Incorporeal. What is it that gives the Echo?
By what means the Soul is Sensible, and what is the Principal and Commanding part of it.
Of Respiration or Breathing.
Of the Passions of the Body, and whether the Soul hath a Sympathetical Condolency with it.

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