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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, John, 1627-1705.

Standardized Title:

Miscellaneous discourses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End of the world.

Geology--Early works to 1800.

Geology.

Cosmology--Early works to 1800.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi,[1],456p.,plates ) port. ;

Edition:

The third edition, illustrated .. and much more enlarged than the former editions, from the author's own MSS.

Other Title:

Three physico-theological discourses,

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

The address to the reader signed: William Derham.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Keynes, 85

English Short Title Catalog, T93683.

OCLC:

642752780