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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... hath been made 1 of the Itch of Writing , and the Mul- titude of worthless Books , wherewith importunate Scribblers have peftered the World , Scribimus indocti doctique : And , ----- Tenet infanabile multos Scribendi Cacoethes . I am ...
... hath been made 1 of the Itch of Writing , and the Mul- titude of worthless Books , wherewith importunate Scribblers have peftered the World , Scribimus indocti doctique : And , ----- Tenet infanabile multos Scribendi Cacoethes . I am ...
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... hath a kind of Refpiration , and whence it receives the Air 73 , 74 , 75 That the Air infinuates itself into the Water for the Refpiration of Fishes 76 , and even into fubterraneous Waters , whence it clears the Mines of Damps 76 , 77 ...
... hath a kind of Refpiration , and whence it receives the Air 73 , 74 , 75 That the Air infinuates itself into the Water for the Refpiration of Fishes 76 , and even into fubterraneous Waters , whence it clears the Mines of Damps 76 , 77 ...
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... hath to fashion and form , and why the Child refembles the Parent , and fometimes the AR- cestor The Conftruction of a Set of Temporary Parts , for the use of the Foetus only while in the Womb , a clear Proof of De- fign 297 No ...
... hath to fashion and form , and why the Child refembles the Parent , and fometimes the AR- cestor The Conftruction of a Set of Temporary Parts , for the use of the Foetus only while in the Womb , a clear Proof of De- fign 297 No ...
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... hath already obferv'd and delineated , Í conjecture , cannot be fewer than 3000 Species , perhaps many more . The Butterflies and Beetles are fuch nume- rous Tribes , that I believe in our own native Country alone the Species of each ...
... hath already obferv'd and delineated , Í conjecture , cannot be fewer than 3000 Species , perhaps many more . The Butterflies and Beetles are fuch nume- rous Tribes , that I believe in our own native Country alone the Species of each ...
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... hath fhewn in many Inftances , that he is not confin'd to one only Inftrument for the working one Effect , but can perform the fame thing by divers means . So , tho ' Feathers feem neceffary for flying , yet hath he enabled feveral ...
... hath fhewn in many Inftances , that he is not confin'd to one only Inftrument for the working one Effect , but can perform the fame thing by divers means . So , tho ' Feathers feem neceffary for flying , yet hath he enabled feveral ...
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