The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

1717

CONTENTS	17

A Guess at the Number of Terrestrial Bodies I Inanimate	21

That the material Works of God are wisely contrived and adapted	29

The Cartefian Hypothefis That ſuppoſing God had only created	46

A Plastick Nature under God ſuperintending and effecting natural	52

Of the visible Works of God and their Division 57 58 The Ato	59

Of the Moon and its Ufes	66

That the Air infinuates itself into the Water for the Respiration	77

Plants having a Kind of Cisterns or Bafins formed of their Leaves	219

nament and for mutual Aſſiſtance 229	229

In the Nourishment of their Bodies making that Food which	243

The Use of the Aqueous Humour and that it is ſuddenly reparable	256

Thirdly Of the Ear 262 The Use of the Auricula 263 Of	264

Sixthly Of the WindPipe its admirable Structure and Uses	270

The wonderful Artifice of Nature in regulating the Motion of	278

Why the Bones are made hollow	287

That the Winds bring up more Vapours from the Sea than they	83

Of inanimate mixd Bodies 1 Stones their Qualities and Uses	91

That the minute compotent Particles of Bodies are naturally	98

The Uses of Flowers 107 Of Seeds and their Teguments	110

Of Animals the Proviſion that is made for the Continuance of Spe	117

The Migration of Birds from ore Country to another a strange	128

The wonderful Art ofervable in the Construction Situation	135

In Birds all the Members are fitted for the Use of flying 146	146

The Bodies of Fishes most conveniently formed and provided for	152

The incredible Smallness and Subtleness of some Animalcules	166

CONTENTS	171

SECOND PART	187

The Conveniences of this Figure shewn for Union of Parts Strength	194

Of its Motion both Diurnal upon its own Poles and Annual	202

Practical Inferences from the precedent Discourse wherein it	290

The Parts that seem of little or no Ufe as the Fat ſhewn to	293

No equivocal or spontaneous Generation but that all Animals	307

Whence thoſe vaſt Numbers of ſmall Frogs which have been obſerved	316

Of Toads found in the Heart of TimberTrees and in the Middle	323

Why the Foramen Ovale is kept open in ſome Amphibious	331

The Manner and Use of the extending and withdrawing the Curtain	343

An admirable Story out of Galen about the taking a Kid out of	349

An Answer to an Objection against the Wisdom of God in making	357

Another remarkable Instance in proportioning the Length of	384

Praise and Glory due to him for them 178 179 180	388

and each having its Planets moving about it furnished with their

An Objection against the Use of ſeveral Bodies I have inſtanced

書籍名	The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, Ray
著者	Ray
版	7
発行	1717
書籍の提供元	University Library Basel
デジタル化された日	2024年11月11日

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