Authority Cited: Digby
Author name and dates: Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; naval commander (privateer); early scientist (plant oxygen); alchemy; founding member of Royal Soc.; Browne critic
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 83 K. Digby cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 94 K. Digby cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Additions of five K. Digby cites in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italics below (these are cited only as Digby in the 1773 Dict.).]
SIR KENELM DIGBY, Two Treatises: in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies; in the Other the Nature of Man's Soul Is Looked into. In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. London,1658. (1st ed. 1644). (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.152)
Author name and dates: Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; naval commander (privateer); early scientist (plant oxygen); alchemy; founding member of Royal Soc.; Browne critic
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 83 K. Digby cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 94 K. Digby cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Additions of five K. Digby cites in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italics below (these are cited only as Digby in the 1773 Dict.).]
SIR KENELM DIGBY, Two Treatises: in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies; in the Other the Nature of Man's Soul Is Looked into. In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. London,1658. (1st ed. 1644). (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.152)
- To my sonne; advertise; contribution;
- Treatise Concerning the Body of man; apprehension; ashes; asker; barrel; billet; bore (same quote as barrel); calx; . . . firestick; fleet; . . . inanity; inconsumptible; . . . juggle; lap; laxity; leaf; local; make; . . . quantititve; . . . scholastick; . . . wield;
- Treatise Concerning the Soul of Man; apprenticeship (Dedication); blind; brack (Dedication); brave (Dedication); cast; . . . flashy (Dedication); flexuous; . . . many; . . . observant; . . . racket; . . . serve; . . . tardity; there; . . . worthy; [BKG Note: all cites indicated as "Dedication" are found in "To my sonne", which precedes the Body Treatise.]
- Digby (no work cited); applicability; beatitude; black; capable; celerity; ; . . . failing; farrier; fencer; . . . imbue; impartible; . . . judger; loaf; materiality; mediate; . . . oily; . . . quillet; random; . . . satisfactorily; school; . . . tardity; vexatious; unburning; . . . wean; while; wick; work; worst.
- Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, 1651, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Prince's Arms in St Pauls Church-yard; concludingly; deposition (both in letter from K.D., Decem. 29, 1638). See also Lord George Digby.