Dissertation on a Solid Body Naturally Contained Within a Solid

DE SOLIDO INTRA SOLIDVM &c.

Third, I have destined the third part to the examination of individual solids enclosed within a solid, according to the laws found in the resolution of the problem.

The fourth part demonstrates the different states of Etruria Tuscany which have remained untouched by historians and writers of natural things, and proposes a mode of the universal flood, not repugnant to the laws of natural motions.

And I had begun to extend these things in the Italian idiom, both because I understood that it pleased you so, and so that it might be evident to the illustrious Academy, which has enrolled me in the number of its members, that as I am little worthy of such an honor, so I am most eager to testify to the efforts by which I labor to arrive at some knowledge of the Etruscan language. Nor do I bear with displeasure the necessity imposed upon me of delaying that same writing: for just as an impending journey promises me a more cumulative knowledge of the things serving to illustrate the question, so the delay of time promises me happier progress in the study of the language.

As for the things themselves explained by the aforementioned method, it would be long to transcribe all the observations with the conclusions deduced therefrom; therefore, I shall report now the conclusions, now the observations, as it shall have seemed more convenient, in order to briefly indicate the main points, as far as it is permitted.