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What kind of rhetorical appeal is the following excerpt from "The Preface" to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy?"Some will say, that my much writing is a disease; . . . if much writing be a disease, then the best philosophers, both moral and natural, as also the best divines, lawyers, physicians, poets, historians, orators, mathematicians, chemists, and many more have been grievously sick; I and Seneca, Plinius, Aristotle, Cicero, Tacitus, Plutarch, Euclid, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, St. Augustin. . . have been at death's door with the disease of writing."*

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