The Firſt Dialogue.
INTERLOCUTORS,
SALVIATUS, SAGREDUS, and SIMPLICIUS.
SALVIATUS.
The frequent reſort (Gentlemen) to
your Famous Arſenal of Venice, preſen
teth, in my thinking, to your Speculative
Wits, a large field to Philoſophate in:
and more particularly, as to that part
which is called the Mechanicks: in re
gard that there all kinds of Engines, and
Machines are continually put in uſe, by a
huge number of Artificers of all ſorts;
amongſt whom, as well through the obſervations of their Prede
ceſſors, as thoſe, which through their own care they continually
are making, it's probable, that there are ſome very learned, and
bravely diſcours'd Men.
your Famous Arſenal of Venice, preſen
teth, in my thinking, to your Speculative
Wits, a large field to Philoſophate in:
and more particularly, as to that part
which is called the Mechanicks: in re
gard that there all kinds of Engines, and
Machines are continually put in uſe, by a
huge number of Artificers of all ſorts;
amongſt whom, as well through the obſervations of their Prede
ceſſors, as thoſe, which through their own care they continually
are making, it's probable, that there are ſome very learned, and
bravely diſcours'd Men.
A Deſcription of
the Arſenal of
Venice.
the Arſenal of
Venice.
It is a large field
for Wits to Philo
ſophate in.
for Wits to Philo
ſophate in.
SAGR. Sir, you are not therein miſtaken: and I my ſelf, out of