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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    lom Part If. H y.’ I . Y words, Nous difonSt ^u il ne fe fait dans toute - la nature aucune generation par accident ^ i&c. We affirmjthac there is not in all Nature any accidental Q or Spontaneous ] Generation, but all come by Propagation 5 wherein Chance ^ hath not the leaft part or interefl. And in ' p. 159. rpeaking of the Generation ofinfetls out of Plants, in contradidion I fuppofe to Seignior Redi^ he faith , Hous croyons abfolu- ment^ &g. We do abfolutely believe, that it is not poffible to prove by experience, that any fnfeds are engendred out of Plants: But on the contrary, we are very well informed and afTured, that thefe little Animals are not fhut upon or enclofed there for any other reafori, than to draw thence their nourifliment. Ids| true indeed3 chat by a Certain , conftant and! immutable Order of Nature we fee many , lores of Infeds afSxed to particular Species^ of Plants and Fruits, to which therefpediv^ kindsfaften themfelves as it were by Inftind.' But we are to know, that they all come of A the Seed of Animalcules of their own kind, that were before laid there. For thefe In- . feds do thrufl; their Seed or Eggs fb deep in-f | to the Plants, that they come to be after-1 wards as it were united with them , and the Aperture or Orifice by which they cn* tred ejuite clofed up and obliterated 5 the Eggs being batched and noarifhed within.
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