It advised
conversation with men of the soundest reputation for religion,
life, and learning, but recreation with those of the same rank and
quality. First place was to be given to religion, so that the
foundation of all studies would be the service of God. Following
in importance were: speaking and writing in English or Latin
(grammar, syntax, and rhetoric), astronomy, astrology, geography
(whose authorities were Pliny, Strabo, and the pagan writers of
the first century), chorography, mathematics, including arithmetic
and geometry, poetry (reading, writing, and criticizing), music,
including part-music, drawing, limning, painting, art history,
exercise (riding, running, leaping, tilting, throwing, wrestling,
swimming, shooting, and falconry), logic and disputation if
related to one's intended profession such as the law, philosophy
(Plato and Aristotle), and some medicine and botany.
The Flemish Johann Baptista van Helmont demonstrated that metals
dissolved in acid can be recovered through chemical means and
enunciated the doctrine that each thing in nature has its own
specific organization.
Richard Brathwaite's "The English Gentleman" portrays the sombre
Puritan who accepts the gospel of work. He is a staid and serious
businessman. "Matrimonial Honour" by Daniel Rogers opined that for
success, a marriage must be godly, with the parties equally
religious, worshipping together in private and in public.
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