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 / By John Ray.

  • Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Date:
1692
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Credit: 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 / By John Ray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bath quite ceafed, Jt may be brought to beat anew by tbo Application of warm Spittle, or by pricking it * gently with a Pin or Needle. I anlwer, it may be in thefe Inftances, the fcattering Spirits remain¬ ing in the Heart, may for a time being a- gitated by heat, caufe thefe faint Pulfations; though I fliould rather attribute them to '< a plaftkk Nature or vital Principle, as the Vegetation of Plants muft aKb be. ; But to proceed, neither can I wholly ac-' quiefce in the Hypothejis of that Honourable and- defervedly Famous Author I formerly had occafion to mention; which I find in his free Enquiry into the vulgar Notion of Nature^ P. 77,78. delivered in thefe Words, “ I think it probable, that the great and < “ wife Author of things did, when he firft formed the Univerfal and Undiftinguilh- “ ed Matter into the World, put its parts “ into various Motions, whereby they were | “ necefiarily divided into niimberlefs Porti- I “ ons of differing Bulks, Figures and Situ- ' “ ationsin refpedof each other. And that ^ “ by his infinite Wifdom and Power he did “ fo guide and over-rule the Motions of thefe Parts, at the beginning of things, as that “ ^whether in a ihorter or a longer time 1 “ Reafoo cannot determine) they were fi- ■