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sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, knt.

Archimedis, aliorumque nonnullorum ex antiquis propofitiones & demonstrationesr ecit are or dine, & in ufum prof erre potis Jit.

Mr. Christopher Wren was an Assistant to the said Dr. Scarborough, in anato-mical Preparations and Experiments, especially upon the Muscles of humanbodies, during their Studies at Oxford and elsewhere; and particularly he^plained by Models formed on Pasteboards, the Anatomical Administration°f all the Muscles of an human Body, as they naturally rife in Dissection, &c.for the Use of Dr. Scarborough's celebrated Lectures in the publick Theatre inSurgeon’s-Hall. —These Models, by credible Report, were .deposited in thesaid Theatre, and destroyed at the Fire. of London. Hence came the firstWoduction of Geometrical and Mechanical Speculations into Anatomy.

Zodiac u\s Reformatus,

Atria multiplici radiantia lumine cœliStellarumque facros us us, quofeunque, vetustiVana fuperfiitio j'œde detorferat cevi,

Pangere fert animus. Fu, quern purifstma vestitGloria circumdans, oculis impervia nojlris,

^ui solo in numeros cogis vaga sidera nutu >

Mundi magne par ens, regni ccelejlis origo,

Annue conanti, devotumque accipe carmenNil mihi Castalio fapiunt de fonte liquor es,

Nil mihi Pierides, & inania nomina MusæDulcesonant, tu solus ades, placideque saves 0,Dum tua sa£ia canam, vaftumque ingentis OlympiDum populo modulabor opus ; gens nescia veriUt satuum, longaque animum caligine mersumAttollat ccelo, & flammantia lumina mundiDum supet, authori solim tibi ponat honores,

Codt as & jhcri varios conformet ad ujus.

Hos ergo æther cos ignes sub node micantes,Indigenas cœli, numerofumque agmen Olympi,Nominibus , nutnenfque fuis distinguere primiCcepere Assyrii, studiis gens deditafacris ;

Hi folis, lunœque vices, metasque vagantumStellarum , liquidasque vias inquirere doSli(Ne nimium confufa forent, quœrentibus astra,Aut forsan cœlosua ne mensura deejset)

In species varias animantum, £2? nomina certaDisposere ; novis ornantes astra sguris.

Fœlices ammœ ! (primo ratione j'agaci§uœ detexistis cœli secreta ; docentesFerrarum populos, m cœli limina certosFerre gradus ; pn masque suas agnofeerefedes-,)Non vos incufo (cœli profapia !) quorum,

Nec cæca ambitio, nee luert insana libido,FiSlorumque unquam veneratio stulta deorum,Sublimes animos for mis pellexerit istis,

Fallere mortales miseros ; fed degener orbis ,

Et fiSlis ludens, vatum sanatica turbo,Fal/idici votes, temerant qui carmine verurn,(Spurca fuperstitio pojiquam postederat urbes

Niliacas,