While looking a little more at early modern texts that talk about sympathy, I came across this (which is apparently distinguished by being the earliest text returned in a search for ‘sympathy’ and its variants in Early English Books Online.) Likewise néere to this Ilande is founde a kynde of fish, and also vpon the coaste …
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Travels far and near
[Cross-posted from Modsquad] I’ve been reading Leibniz’s correspondence with Thomas Burnett of Kemnay. Burnett is probably best known as one of the people via whom Leibniz tried to communicate with Locke. He was, more generally, a source of news for Leibniz about things published in English — his own personal book review section. Locke’s work …
Stewart Duncan 