Three physico-theological discourses concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for William Innys, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church yard
1713, 1713
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| Edition: | The third edition, illustrated .. and much more enlarged than the former editions, from the author's own MSS |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T93683. - Keynes, 85. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The address to the reader signed: William Derham |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxxi,[1],456p.,plates) port 8° |