Symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it

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Cosmology: creation of the heaven and the earth. Engraving by G. van der Gouwen after G. Hoet.

The Creation: episodes in the book of Genesis. Oil painting.

God about to create the universe from a large sphere which is suspended on a rope by two genii. Engraving by J. Muller after H. Goltzius.

God creating Eve out of Adam. Line engraving.

J.J. Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, tab. XXIII

God creating Eve out of Adam and blessing her as she emerges into the splendors of Eden. Wood engraving.

God creating the animals. Etching by C. Fantetti, 1675, after Raphael.

The creation. Mezzotint by J. Martin.

God (looking female ?) creating Eve from Adam. Wood engraving.

God creating Eve out of Adam and blessing her amidst the natural wonders of Eden. Woodcut after H. Brosamer, 1549.

Que creacionismo? / S. Finkielman.

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 objections / By John Ray, F.R.S.

Vestiges of the natural history of creation and other evolutionary writings / Robert Chambers ; edited with a new introduction by James A. Secord.

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.

The sacred theory of the earth. Containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things ... / [Thomas Burnet].

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Creation

Images from the collections

Images about Creation

Works from the collections

Que creacionismo? / S. Finkielman.

Vestiges of the natural history of creation and other evolutionary writings / Robert Chambers ; edited with a new introduction by James A. Secord.

The sacred theory of the earth. Containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things ... / [Thomas Burnet].

Creation

Images from the collections

Images about Creation

Works from the collections

Que creacionismo? / S. Finkielman.

Vestiges of the natural history of creation and other evolutionary writings / Robert Chambers ; edited with a new introduction by James A. Secord.

The sacred theory of the earth. Containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things ... / [Thomas Burnet].

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