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The mirror of stones; in which the nature, generation, properties, virtues and various species of more than 200 different jewels, are distinctly described. Also certain and infallible rules to know the good frim the bad ... Extracted from the works of Aristotle, Pliny, etc ... / by Camillus Leonardus ... ; Now first translated into English.

  • Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502.
Date:
1750
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mirror of stones; in which the nature, generation, properties, virtues and various species of more than 200 different jewels, are distinctly described. Also certain and infallible rules to know the good frim the bad ... Extracted from the works of Aristotle, Pliny, etc ... / by Camillus Leonardus ... ; Now first translated into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pag es, By and the Imagination to Things imaginable Thus, fay they, it is in Stones; the Souls of Stones extended themfelves from the Place of the Stone’s Refidence, to Man, and fo imprefs’d its Virtue on the Subftance of Man ; and thus they held that Virtue was in Stones, and that it operated by the Mediation of the Soul’; juft as Fafcination is wrought by the Eye in the fame Way. They faid, that the Soul of Man, or of any other Animal, enter'd another Man or Animal by the Sight, and hinder’d the Operation of that Animal; which Fafcination, muft not be fuppos’d to proceed folely from the Sight, fince Vifion is effected by taking in, not by fending out. Of this Opinion Virgil feems to be in his Bucolics, where he fays,; Nefeio quis teneros oculus mibi fafcinat agnos. Such Kind of Fafcination is not. peculiar _ to Men, but is likewife feen in Brutes, as both Solinus and Pliny affirm; nay, 1 myfelf have obferv’d, that when the Wolves in ftaly face a Man, his Voice becomes hoarfe, nor can they raife their Cry to fo highaTone, altho’ before they had no Defeé in their vocal Inftrument. Nor does this happen merely from the Sight, as before vm 2 hinted,