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. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.

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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. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
• Miscellaneous discourses

People / Organizations

• John Ray (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for William Innys, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church yard, 1713.

Publication year

1713-1713

ESTC No.

T93683

Grub Street ID

313343

Description

xxxi,[1],456p.,plates : port. ; 8⁰

Note

The address to the reader signed: William Derham.