ABSTRACT

His very Bed-Chamber, was so extreamely crowded with Boxes, Glasses, Potts, Chymical & Mathematical Instruments; Bookes & Bundles of Papers; that there was but just roome for a few Chaires; so as his whole furniture was very Philo­ sophical, without formality: There were yet other Roomes, and a small Library (and so you know had Descartes) as learning more from Men, Real Experiments, & his Laboratory (which was ample and well furnish’d), than from Books.1