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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    ] great thing that when the Creature was hitn- I XO' pould take in the Food hy the Mouth I and chew it with its Teeth j hut that it jhould J bring up again into the Mouth that which it I had [wallowed down into its fir ft Stomach ; and^ 1 chewing it there a long time it ftiould grind \-and jmooth ity and afterward [wallow it a- I gatUi not into- the fame Stomachy but into I another i fee me d to us wonderful indeed. But I many neglebl [uch works of Nature^ admi~ I ring only [range and unufual Sights, So far I Galen. ^ I This pleafant and admirable Scory5 fliould [ one conficjer all the particulars of it, and I endeavour to give an account of them, as ’ aifo all the Inferences that might be drawn, ^ from it; ,one might fill a whole Volume with Comments upon it. ' All that I Hiall^ atprefent fay is this, that in alb this Oeco-' ; nomy and thefe Adions, Counfel and Def^gn ‘ doth fo clearly appear, that he mult needs ■ be very ftupid that doth noD difeern it, or impudent that can deny it. I might add. That there Teems to be fomething more than can be performed l:)y meet M^chanifm in the Eledipn this Creature made of its Food. For before it would eat of any, it fmelt to all the Liquors before it, and when it had done fo, betook it felf to the Milk and de¬ voured that. He doth not lay that the Milk
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