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
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.
Additional description
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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