Memoirs for the ingenious. : Containing several curious observations in philosophy, mathematicks, physick, philology, and other arts and sciences. In miscellaneous letters. / By J. De La Crose, E. A. P. January, 1693. To be continued monthly. Vol. I.

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1693
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Credit: Memoirs for the ingenious. : Containing several curious observations in philosophy, mathematicks, physick, philology, and other arts and sciences. In miscellaneous letters. / By J. De La Crose, E. A. P. January, 1693. To be continued monthly. Vol. I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ . -v. ■ ... * V • , * i •» January, \6$\, 15 lived 9) o years, Iris Sons that were born an hundred years before tire ‘ Deluge, re.Tiained about fix Ages alive •, but then each Generation had his life Ihortned of a whole Century, till at laft the period of human life was fixed to a four, five, or fix- fcore years. And thus, Honourable Sir, you have my thoughts concerning the formation and drowning of the Earth,which I do not altogether look upon as a Romance, but fhould be unwilling to raife them higher than the probability of a Conjecture, and much tefs for¬ cibly to impofe them upon other Men,or to compofe huge Volumes in their defence. Your Honour fees I have kept my word fo far, as to fuppofe nothing contrary to Reafon or Revelation, nor hkewife to experience as much as this laft was known to me •, befides my Hypothecs fuppofes no unnecefiary Miracles, to form Rivers, or to raife up Hills •, no miraculous Providence to lengthen the days ot the Creation, or tobaften the effects of natural Agents; no Angel to keep up the Ark, during the terrible F all of the Ground into the Abyfs, or to fleer tharVeflel amongft the ruines of the burfting and cracking Earth. * In a word, this Hypothecs does every way agree with the account of the Holy Writ, the only true Guide we have in this matter. For inftanceas to the going off of the Waters from the furface of the *Earth, 'Adopts afFares us, that at the end of 150 days,-GW r*de.a wind to pafs over the Earth, and the Waters were ajfuaged Suppofing it to have been an Eaft-wind,w7hichGod made ufe of to drain the Red Sea, and is a-lfo the mod draining in this our Country 5 ( any other may do as well) this wind driving the waters to the Weft, as it difcharged the Eaft-fide, fo it made the Weft more ponderous: fo that the Weft fide by degrees overbalancing the Eaft, the Terreftria, Clobe returned infenfibly to its farmer Equilibrium and Figure, V -o -• rj G; • : IV • f|.y s ) .•] '■ ■■■ ' -y. -M ‘Xfl’-’-OY A January 12.
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