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A theatre of politicall flying-insects : wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them. And in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject
Purchas, Samuel (1577?-1626)
1657
The second part has separate title-page with imprint: London, Printed by M. S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657. The pagination of the first part is very irregular. At the end of the first part is Thoma...
An essay on the mechanical fabrick of the universe : or the dependence of effects upon their causes. In a new hypothesis, suited to our modern and experimental philosophy. In which are solved several phaenomena, or appearances, hitherto unaccounted forl as the cause of gravitation, motion, reflection, refraction, &c. With a method proposed, to find out the exact rate that a ship runs, and consequently the longitude at sea
Purshall, Conyers
1707
A reissue of the sheets of 1705 (first edition), with a new title-page substituting "essay on" for "essay at".