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Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. The primitive chaos, and creation of the world. II. The general Deluge, its causes and effects. III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains; the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea; the eruptions of vulcano's; the nature and causes of earthquakes. With an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England. With practical inferences

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Title: Three physico-theological discourses : concerning I. The primitive chaos, and creation of the world. II. The general Deluge, its causes and effects. III. The dissolution of the world and future conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed the production and use of mountains; the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods and inundations of the sea; the eruptions of vulcano's; the nature and causes of earthquakes. With an historical account of those two late remarkable ones in Jamaica and England. With practical inferences

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Classmark: BC Sc/RAY

Creator(s): Ray, John (1627-1705)

Related people: Ray, John, 1627-1705

Publisher: Printed for Sam Smith

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1693

Language: English

Size and medium: [24], 162, [8], 163-406, [2] p., IV leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286183

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002233409705181

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Publisher's catalogue on final two pages.


Indexed in: Wing R409; Keynes 82.

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Plate IV bound in upside down. Title-page inscribed W.G. 3s. 6d. in a seventeenth century hand. Lettered: RAY ON THE DELUGE &c.

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