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 ObjectionsWilliam Innys, 1714 - 389 pages |
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... turns the Atoms afide ? Or do they caft Lots among themselves which fhall decline , which not ? Or why do they decline the leaft interval that may be , and not a greater ? why not two or three minima as well as one ? Optare hac quidem ...
... turns the Atoms afide ? Or do they caft Lots among themselves which fhall decline , which not ? Or why do they decline the leaft interval that may be , and not a greater ? why not two or three minima as well as one ? Optare hac quidem ...
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... turn to it . What account can be given why a Dog being to leap upon a Table , which he fees to be too high for him to reach at once , if a Stool or Chair happens to stand near it , doth firft mount up that , and from thence the Table ...
... turn to it . What account can be given why a Dog being to leap upon a Table , which he fees to be too high for him to reach at once , if a Stool or Chair happens to stand near it , doth firft mount up that , and from thence the Table ...
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... turn : In which Veins they find Air enough to ferve their turn , needing not much by reafon that they lie ftill , and move but little , O- thers in times of Floods are left in the Mea- dows , and with the Water fink into the Earth at at ...
... turn : In which Veins they find Air enough to ferve their turn , needing not much by reafon that they lie ftill , and move but little , O- thers in times of Floods are left in the Mea- dows , and with the Water fink into the Earth at at ...
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... turn not again to cover the Earth . But what need was there ( may fome . fay ) that the Sea fhould be made fo large , that : its Superficies fhould equal if not exceed that of the dry Land ? Where is the Wisdoin of the Creator , in ...
... turn not again to cover the Earth . But what need was there ( may fome . fay ) that the Sea fhould be made fo large , that : its Superficies fhould equal if not exceed that of the dry Land ? Where is the Wisdoin of the Creator , in ...
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... turn'd edge - wife by the force of it , because in that fite it doth leaft refift the Motion of the Water whereas did the Branches of thefe Plants grow round , they would be thrown back- ward and forward every Tide . Nay , not only the ...
... turn'd edge - wife by the force of it , because in that fite it doth leaft refift the Motion of the Water whereas did the Branches of thefe Plants grow round , they would be thrown back- ward and forward every Tide . Nay , not only the ...
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