Specvlvm mundi. Or a glasse representing the face of the world; shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an Hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in Nature / [John Swan].

  • Swan, John, -1671.
Date:
1635
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Credit: Specvlvm mundi. Or a glasse representing the face of the world; shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an Hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in Nature / [John Swan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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