An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals : as also of the sea, rivers, and springs : with an account of the universal deluge : and of the effects that it had upon the earth / by John Woodward ...

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An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals : as also of the sea, rivers, and springs : with an account of the universal deluge : and of the effects that it had upon the earth / by John Woodward ...

Author

Woodward, John, 1665-1728.

Publication

London :: Printed for Ric. Wilkin ...,

1695.

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Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.

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Contents

• imprimatur
• title page
• To the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, Knight, President of the Royal Society.
• PREFACE.
• The CONTENTS.
• ERRATA.
• AN ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS Upon which this DISCOURSE Is Founded.
  • A Dissertation concerning Shells and other marine Bodies, found at Land; Proving that they were originally generated and formed at Sea: that they are the real spoils of once living Animals: and not Stones, or natural Fossils, as some late Learned Men have thought.
• natural history
  • PART I. An Examination of the Opinions of former Writers on this Subject. The Means whereby they thought these Marine Bodies brought out upon the Earth. Of certain Changes of Sea and Land, and other Alterations in the Terra∣queous Globe, which they suppose to have happened.
  • PART II. Concerning the Universal Deluge. That these Marine Bodies were then left at Land. The Effects it had upon the Earth.
  • PART III. Concerning the Fluids of the Globe.
    • SECT. I. Of the great Abyss. Of the Ocean. Concerning the Origine of Springs, and Rivers. Of Vapours, and of Rain.
    • PART III.
  • PART IV. Of the Origin and Formation of Metalls and Minerals.
  • PART V. Of the Alterations which the Ter∣raqueous Globe hath undergone since the time of the Deluge.
  • PART VI. Concerning the State of the Earth, and the Productions of it, before the Deluge.
• Books Printed for Richard Wilkin at the King's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard.