The Abyssinian philosophy confuted: or, telluris theoria neither sacred, nor agreeable to reason. Being, for the most part, a translation of Petrus [i.e. Bernardino] Ramazzini, Of the wonderful springs of Modena / Illustrated with many curious remarks and experiments by the author and translator. To which is added, a new hypothesis deduced from Scripture, and the observation of nature. With the addition of some miscellany experiments. By Robert St. Clair. M.D.

  • Ramazzini, Bernardino, 1633-1714.
Date:
1697
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Credit: The Abyssinian philosophy confuted: or, telluris theoria neither sacred, nor agreeable to reason. Being, for the most part, a translation of Petrus [i.e. Bernardino] Ramazzini, Of the wonderful springs of Modena / Illustrated with many curious remarks and experiments by the author and translator. To which is added, a new hypothesis deduced from Scripture, and the observation of nature. With the addition of some miscellany experiments. By Robert St. Clair. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prefs and opén,that the form of theAn- tediluvign Earth may be thence con- cluded; & therefore he has recourfe to his Aby finian Philofophy a very good fecond, as we fhall find: Dignum patella operculum. He fuppofes the Chaos | Zell. Th.c. ¢, to have been made up of | p. 35:36537- Particles, difigrent as to fhape, bulk; weight, &c- and that the grofleft folid Particles by | their weight falling downward.’ fud- denly toward the Center, formed the Kernel of his}Primogenial Barth, and that immediately there followed-a new divifion of the} remaining part into two, and no more, viz. Fluid-and Vo- fatile, or Aig. and Water, of which the thinneft and lighteft part keeping uppermeft,made the Air,and the grofler the Water,out of which were feparated theOily parts,which being lighter fioat- ed aboveit; and aft of all he fuprpofes dnother purgation of the Air, ‘from its Earthy Particles, which ‘falling np- on the Oily Particles, were’ by their Vifcidity entangled, and thus hindred from defcending into the Abyfs, and thefe Earthy Particles he fuppofes by the heat of the Sun, to have been burnt into |