[181] PAGE 100, LINE 20. Page 100, line 24. _si per impedim[=e]ta ... pervenire possunt._--All editions agree in this reading, but the sense undoubtedly requires _non possint_. Compare p. 91, line 21. [182] PAGE 102, LINE 4. Page 102, line 4. _capite_ 4.--This is a misprint for _capite_ 40, and is retained in the later editions. In the quotation from Baptista Porta, where the English version of 1658 is adhæred to, the words "& deturbat eam" have been omitted by the translator. [183] PAGE 107, LINE 16. Page 107, line 18. _Cardanus scribit._--The alleged perpetual motion machine is mentioned in _De rerum varietate_, _lib._ 9, cap. xlviii. (Basil., 1581, p. 641). See also the Note to p. 223. For Peregrinus and for Taisnier, see the note to p. 5, lines 8 and 12. [184] PAGE 107, LINE 19. Page 107, line 21. _Antonij de Fantis._--His work is: _Tabula generalis scotice subtilitatis octo Sectionibus vniuersam Doctoris Subtilis Periti[=a] c[=o]plect[=e]s: ab excellentissimo doctore Antonio de F[=a]tis taruisino edita ..._ Lugd., 1530. [185] PAGE 108, LINE 26. Page 108, line 31. _Cusani in staticis._--See the note to p. 64, line 16. [186] PAGE 108, LINE 33. Page 108, line 41. _Languidi ... tardiùs acquiescunt._--The editions of 1628 and 1633 omit these seven words. [187] PAGE 109, LINE 11. Page 109, line 13. _halinitro._--Either native carbonate of soda or native carbonate of potash might be meant, but not saltpetre. Scaliger, in his _De Subtilitate ad Cardanum_ (Lutet., 1557, p. 164), _Exercitatio_ CIII., 15, under the title, _Nitrum non est Salpetræ_, says: "More tuo te, tuaque confundis. Salpetræ inter salis fossilis ponis hîc. Mox Halinitrum inter salis, & nitri naturam, speciem obtinere." "_Sal nitrum_ is salt which is boiled out of the earth, especially fat earth, as in stables, or any place of excrements." (_A Chymicall Dictionary explaining Hard Places and Words met withall in the Writings of Paracelsus ..._, Lond., 1650.) [188] PAGE 109, LINE 20. Page 109, line 23. _arte ioculatoriâ._--Edition 1628, _joculatoriâ_; edition 1633, _jaculatoriâ_. [189] PAGE 110, LINE 11. Page 110, line 12. _qualis fuit Antonij denarius._--The Elizabethan version of Pliny (book xxxiii., ch. ix., p. 479) runs thus: {50} "To come now unto those that counterfeit money. _Antonius_ whiles hee was one of the three usurping Triumvirs, mixed yron with the Romane silver denier. He tempered it also with the brasen coine, and so sent abroad false and counterfeit money." Georgius Agricola (_De Natura Fossilium_, p. 646) says: "Sed ea fraus capitalis est, non aliter ac eorum qui adulterinas monetas cudunt, argento miscentes multam plumbi candidi portionem, aut etiam ferri, qualis fuit Antonii denarius, ut Plinius memoriæ tradidit. Nunc dicam de candido plumbo, nam majoris pretii est quàm aes. In quod plumbum album, inquit Plinius, addita aeris tertia portione candidi adulteratur stannum."