The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation: In Two Parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals (beasts, Birds, Fishes and Insects), More Particularly in the Body of the Earth, Its Figure, Motion, and Consistency; and in the Admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man and Other Animals; as Also in Their Generation, &c. With Answers to Some Objections |
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... feen a Neft made . The Migration of Birds from one Country to another , a strange and unaccountable Allion . 128 The wonderful Art obfervable in the Conftruction , Situation , and Figure of the Cells in Honey - combs 132 , 133 , 134 ...
... feen a Neft made . The Migration of Birds from one Country to another , a strange and unaccountable Allion . 128 The wonderful Art obfervable in the Conftruction , Situation , and Figure of the Cells in Honey - combs 132 , 133 , 134 ...
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... feen that the Juice of Grapes is drawn as well from the Rape , where they remain whole , as from a Vet , where they are bruis'd ; to borrow the Parifian Philofophers Si militude . Whole Grapes pluck'd from the Clufter , and Wine pour'd ...
... feen that the Juice of Grapes is drawn as well from the Rape , where they remain whole , as from a Vet , where they are bruis'd ; to borrow the Parifian Philofophers Si militude . Whole Grapes pluck'd from the Clufter , and Wine pour'd ...
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... feen fo much of the bottom of the Sea round about the Coafts of England , and a great part of the Low Countries , of Italy and Sicily , I muft needs adhere to what I deli- ver'd , That where the bottom of the Sea is not Rocky , but ...
... feen fo much of the bottom of the Sea round about the Coafts of England , and a great part of the Low Countries , of Italy and Sicily , I muft needs adhere to what I deli- ver'd , That where the bottom of the Sea is not Rocky , but ...
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... feen by the naked Eye , fo that the number of Seeds produced at once in fome one Plant ; as for example , Reedmace [ Tipha Pa- luftris ] Harts - Tongue , and many forts of Ferns , may amount to a Million , is a convincing Ar- gument of ...
... feen by the naked Eye , fo that the number of Seeds produced at once in fome one Plant ; as for example , Reedmace [ Tipha Pa- luftris ] Harts - Tongue , and many forts of Ferns , may amount to a Million , is a convincing Ar- gument of ...
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... feen Nefts of an Indian Bird fo artificially compos'd of the Fibres , L think , of fome Roots , fo curiously interwoven and platted together , as is admirable to behold ; which Nefts they hang on the end of the Twigs of Trees over the ...
... feen Nefts of an Indian Bird fo artificially compos'd of the Fibres , L think , of fome Roots , fo curiously interwoven and platted together , as is admirable to behold ; which Nefts they hang on the end of the Twigs of Trees over the ...
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