The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock.

  • Robert Sharrock
Date:
1672
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Credit: The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of arts and nature ... Written according to observations made from experience and practice / By Robert Sharrock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    et, Materies erat confufa quedam, de qua Mundus (qui duabus maxime partibus calo fcil. & terra conftat) digeltis Elementis & accepta forma fabri- caretur. That is, whereas it is {aid, that in the beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth; Itis to be noted, that that which 1s there call’d Heaven and Earth, was invifible, indiftinguifhable in its parts, incompofed, and darknefs was upon the face of that Chaos: infhort, that which was call’d Heaven and Earth, was the matter of which the whole world, whofe chief parts are Heaven and Earth, were to be made, which fanie matter He therefore frequently calleth Semen Celi & terre. Vide lib. 1. De Genefi contra Manicheos, cap.1. & cap.6. & 7. Jnformis illa Materia,quam de Nibilo fecit Deus appellata eft primo Calum & Terra; & ditium eft, In principio Dem fecit Clu & Tervam, Non quia jam hoc erat, fedquia jam hoc effe poterat, Nam & Calin feribitur poftea fatium. Quemadmodum fi femen Arbovis confide- rantes dicamus ibi effe radices & Robur & Kamos e folia & frudius, non quia jam fut fed quia inde futura funt : fic ditiun eft in principio Deus fecit calum & terram quafi femen cali & terre cum confufa adhuc. effet celi & terre Materia. That matter without form which God made out of nothing {he means, as he declares in the 4th Chapter, the fame which the Greeks call’d their Chaos] was called. firft the Heaven and the Earth. And it is faid in the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth, not be- B 4 caufe