The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation; In Two Parts. Viz. the Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals (Beasts, Birds, Fishes and Insects), More Particularly in the Body of the Earth, Its Figure, Motion, and Consiste (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1714. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to Garcias's Opinion, which may be seen in Clujiw. Further I do believe, that in the great . depths of the Sea there grow no Plants at all, the bottom being too remote from the external Air, which though it may pierce the Water so low, yet I doubt whether in quantity sufficient for the Vegetation of Plants: Nay, we are told that in those deep and bottomless Seas there; are no Fish at all - yet not because there are no Plants or Insects to feed them, for that they can live upon Water alone, Rondeletius Experiment about keeping them in a Glass doth undeniably prove, but because their Spawn would be lost in those Seas, the bottom being too cold for it to quicken there:, or rather because being lighter than the Water, there, it would not sink to the bottom, but be buoy'd up by it, and carried away to the Shallows. Again, The great use and convenience, the beauty and variety of so many Springs and Fountains, so many Brooks and Rivers, so many Lakes and standing Pools of Water, and these so scatter'd and dispers'd all the Earth over, that no great part of it is destitute of them, without which it must, without a supply otherways, be desolate and void of Inhabitants:, afford abundant Arguments of Wisdom and Counsel. That Springs mould break forth on the sides of Mountains most remote from the Sea. That there should way be made for Rivers thro' Straits and Rocks, and subterraneous Vaults, so that -one would thinlc that Nature had cut a way on purpose to derive the Water, which else would Would overflow and drown whole Countries. That the Water passing thro' the Veins of the Earth, should be rendred fresh and potable, which it cannot be by any percolations we can make, but the saline Particles will pass through a tenfold Filtre. That in some places there shoul...