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.

  • John Ray
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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    Beams, and cherifliing them by bis Heat lituate and moved fo in refpea of this fub-’ : lun^y WorJd, (and its likely alfo in re- ipect of all the Pianets about hip) that •Art and Cbunfel could not have defigned either to have placed him better, or moved mm more conveniently for the Service thereof; as I coiild eafily make appear by the Inconveniences that would follow . upon the Suppofition of any other fitua- ] tion and motion, Ihews forth the great I Wifdom of him who fo difpofed and mo- ved him. ^ I Secondly, The Moon, a Body in all pro-1 bstbility fomewhat like the Earth we live I upon, by its conftant and regular Motion I helps us to divide our time, refleffs the Sun-^beams to us, and lb by illuminating the Air, takes away in Ibme meaflire the dilconlblate darknelsof our Winter Nights, I procures or at leaft regulates the Fluxes | and Refluxes of the Sea, whereby the Wa¬ ter is kept in conftant Motion, and prefer- ved from Putrefadion, and fo rendred more falutary for the maintenance of its Breed, and ufeful and ferviceable for Man’s conveniencies of Fifhing and Navigation; not to mention the great Influence it is fup-. ppfed to have upon all moift Bodies, and ' phe growth and increafeof Vegetables and Ani»
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