Of sculpture, how derived and diftinguished; with the styles and inftruments belonging to it Sculptura and cælatura how they differ Proplaftic art, protypus, modulus, diatretice, and calices diatreti, what Encauftic art 16. How it occafioned the invention of brafs prints 44 16 Argentum afperum & puftulatum ib 16 Ebur pingue Dimidiæ eminentiæ, the same with baffo relievo and mezzo relievo Scalptus, fcaptus, fcalpturatus Scalpo, Sculpo, derived Cælum, Topvos, what and whence derived Tori, κοίλος 17 ib ib 18 . ib 18, 19 Cavatores Cavatores, what; graphatores, whence our English gravers : fculpture defined Page 19 Inftruments of graving. Style, what. Why fometimes made of bone. Scalprum. Cælum. Cales, cœltes. Allufions in Job x. to all the kinds of ancient writing and graving 20,21 Graphium, γλυφίς, &c. ἐγκολαπῆς, ὑπαγωγεὺς γλαρὶς σμίλης Puntion, polifher, point 20, 21 20, 21, 30 21 ib Graving inftruments fometimes fatal weapons ib 21, 22 Taille douce, burin, intaglia, bolino, and the difference betwixt graving and etching βέλλα, a conjecture of the modern name of a feal; χαράσσω the fame with Charath CHAP. II. Of the original of fculpture in general Adam the first inventor of sculpture Books written by Adam The fall of Adam did not impair his infufed habits. Sculpture long before the univerfal flood Of the Antediluvian Patriarchs The celeftial sciences firft engraven, where, and how long con Sculpture in ftone and brick at Joppa tinuing The books of Seth and Enoch Of Cham ib ib 25 Zoroafter, when he flourished, his learning, curiofity, and engraving of the liberal arts ib Picus Mirandula's pretence of the books of Zoroafter, the Magi, &c. ib Sculpture after the Flood 26 Sculpture propagated by Noah. Sculpture before Mofes ib Objections anfwered The tables of stone engraven by the finger of GOD. ture honoured by GOD Sculpture abused to idolatry no rational prejudice Sculpture elder than idolatry Teraphim and Penates, what Sculpture preferved the memory of the dead SculpPage 26 26, 27 ib ib ib ib ib Bezaleel and Aholiab fculptors The facerdotal pectoral Graving ufed by the Egyptians before they invented Letters ib Hieroglyphics, what By whom interpreted Horapollinis notæ Amongst the Danes and Acadia Letters by whom invented, and the contest about it How they were derived to the feveral Nations Typographical art mistaken by Peter Calaber Sculpture and letters coævous Columns erected by Seth ib 28 24, 42 28 ib ib ib 29 ib Writing with ink in paper or parchment, a novelty in refpect of the more ancient materials, marbles, flates, bark, leaves, tablets of wood, paper, linen, wax, ivory and filk ib Book, our English name for liber, whence derived Laws, divine and human, how configned of old ib ib 30 Writings before Homer's not known to the Greeks Tatian when he flourished ib ib A paffage cited out of him proving the antiquity of recording by fculpture ib Herod's poems engraven in lead 31 Grecians, when they had sculpture firft, and where it was in its Of the reputation and progrefs, of fculpture amongst the Greeks and Romans, down to the middle ages; with fome pretenfions to the invention of copper cuts, and their impreffions 33 Sculpture where and when in its afcendent Page 33, 37 Statues to what head reducible. 33 Sculptores marmoris, metal. in gypfum, &c. ib 34 ib Signa at Rhodes, Athens, and other places, in what prodigious numbers Statues almost as many as men The contest betwixt art and nature in point of fertility ib Statues improveable to a politic as well as expenceful magnificency αποσφραγίσματα ib ib ib Pyrgoteles only permitted to engrave the effigies of Alexander the great The pictures of queen Elizabeth and other princes, how profaned and abused 34, 35 Auguftus would have his figure cut only by Diofcorides, and why Sculpture in what materials moft eminent 35 ib Dipoenus, Prometheus, Ideocus, Eucirapus, Lyfiftratus, Demophilus, Dædalus, Leochares, Policarmus, Myrmecides, all famous sculptors Figulina vafa cælata, why broken by Cotys Hydriæ engraven, and bread The works of Calamis, Antipater, Stratonicus, Taurifeus, Arifteus, Eunicus, Hecates, Praxiteles, Pofidonius, Ledus,. Zopirus, Pytheus 37 Medalifts, who most excellent, and in what emperor's times the best were cut. When they degenerated 37, 62 Sculpture, when it degenerated in Greece and Rome 37 And whence its decay proceeded Sculpture, when it arrived at Rome ib ib Sculpture and writing, when firft among the Danes and Nor Vice and avarice, the occafion why fculpture degenerated, and is not fince arrived to the perfection of the ancients By what means it may recover 39 40 Alexander |