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• The scriptural history of the earth and of mankind : compared with the cosmogonies, chronologies, and original traditions of ancient nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with An Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, And to deduce from this last Event The Causes of the Actual Structure of the Earth in a Series of Letters. With Notes and Illustrations. By Philip Howard, Esq
  by: Howard, Philip
  Published: (1797)
• Dissertations on the Mosaical creation, deluge, building of Babel, and confusion of tongues, &c : I. Against modern Infidels; shewing, that Moses justly declares the whole Universe, Matter and Form, to have been created by God: His Authority, both as a Human and Divine Legislator: That the Mosaical Account, Gen. i. contains nothing contrary to Natural Philosophy: Explications of it, Verse by Verse: Where, of the Powers of the Air; of the Expansion; of the Production of Light; of the Waters above the Firmament; of the Fable of the Preadamites, against Peirerius; of the Obligation of the Sabbath from the Beginning, against Monsieur Jurieu: That the material Elements were not the original Gods of the Gentiles, against Monsieur Le Pluche: The Origin of Idolatry, and what the Heathen Gods were originally: That the God of the Jews was not a mere local and tutelar God, against some Moderns: Of the Existence of Spirits, good and bad, and their Apparitions: Why Devils called Hairy-Ones, &c. II.
  by: Berington, Simon
  Published: (1750)
• Gleanings of antiquities : Containing, I. An essay for explaining the creation and the deluge, according to the sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A discourse of oracles, giving an account of the Sibylline oracles; with an uncommon explication of Virgil's fourth eclogue, and some other Parts of his Works relating to them. To which is Added, An Account of the Oracles delivered at Delphos, and in the other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, both among the Jews and Gentiles. III. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. By John Beaumont, gent
  by: Beaumont, John
  Published: (1724)
• Gleanings of antiquities : Containing, I. An essay for explaining the creation and the deluge, according to the sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A discourse of oracles, giving an account of the Sibylline oracles; with an uncommon explication of Virgil's fourth eclogue, and some other Parts of his Works relating to them. To which is Added, An Account of the Oracles delivered at Delphos, and in the other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, both among the sews and Gentiles. III. Some notes concerning familiar spirits. By John Beaumont, Gent
  by: Beaumont, John
  Published: (1724)
• The antediluvian world : or, a new theory of the earth: containing a clear account of the form and constitution of the terrestrial globe before the universal deluge; proving it to be quite different from what it is at present. And also of the Origin and Causes of the said Deluge, Subterraneous Cavities, Seas, Islands, Mountains, &c. By the late Dr. Francis Walsh
  by: Walsh, Francis
  Published: (1743)