Document Title: 'Essay III Containeing a further Declaration of the Usefullnes of Naturall Philosophy by manifesting that Physiologie much conduces to promote the Empire of Man over the Creatures'.
Related Material: Works, vol. 3, pp. 295-355. Fols. 15-19 published in Works, vol. 13, pp. 291-5.
Extent: Fols. 3-28 (26 leaves)
Date: 1650s or early 1660s
Description: Original version of 'Essay III' of Usefulness. Original foliation, 1-26. This forms the basis of the first four essays in the published text of Usefulness, II, sect. 1, though extensive interpolation later occurred. Fols 15-19, on Helmont's Duelech, did not appear in the published version.
Hand: Italic 1650s; additions in rounded 1650s.
Physical Description: Manuscript
Language: English

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