Volume 2
The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts.
- Bernard Nieuwentyt
- Date:
- 1718-1719
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The religious philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator / ... Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels ... by that learned mathematician Dr. Nieuwentyt ; Translated from the original by John Chamberlayne ... To which is prefix'd, a letter to the translator, by the Reverend J.T. Desaguliers. Adorned with cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Academy, for the Years 1700, and 1701, where he will likewife find, the fame provedas to Sorrel, -Parfly, and. other.Garden-Stuff, by, a Calculation “made;upon the Number of Branches and Sprigs, <eut, off from.,Trees and other Plants, -and. by -counting the Seed found in each Branch :thereof, and in particular the wonderful Fruitfulnefs of a » Grain of Wheat, in many Ears exceedingthe Num- ber of thofe we commonly find produced thereby ; but we have dwelt two long upon this Subje@, and therefore fhall pafs forwards. Spon, XXXII. Convictions From the foregoing Obfervations. — - Heeb To conclude; Let any one who hasread the fore- going Sheets,and particularly what we have quoted from the Tranfattions of the French Academy, tell- us, whether he be not convinced, that the Plants by their Strudture are difpofed to much greater Encreafe than they really produce. Certainly. the Gentlemen Members of the faid Academy, who fo diligently and nicely obferve every thing, do own, that they are convinced and fatisfied. there- with, by ufhering in a new Diflertation with thefe Expreffions ; No Plant does ever arrive to. its entire : Perfeétion, in comparifon of the Parts. with which it. is furnifbed: [See the Memoirs 1701. p. 326.] From whence the foregoing Objedtion is folved.; it. ap- pearing thereby, that altho’ there were incom- /parably more Men.in the World, the Plants would . be more than fufficient for their Food, if they were as fruitful as.they are capable of being by the..prefent Struéture of their Parts. .And it. is alfo true, that there muft be a Caufe or Power. in Nature, whereby among fo many thoufand Plants, in fo many thoufand Years, there has been hard- ly one but what-has been’ hinder’d from doing Sati | what](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30530751_0002_0396.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
