ΑΝ Following Book. HE Works of the Creation relating to our Terraqueous TH Reflecting and Refracting Light 12. Winds, which are of great Ufe and Neceffity In Navigation. Its Its Benefit {Laure of Lenity, Which is of great Ufe in the World 35. Terraqueous Globe itfelf. Of which I take a View in [Its Spherical Figure, which is the most commodious in regard of Light 40. Lodgment of the Waters. The Winds 41. Its Bulk 43. Its Place and Distance from the Sun, and other Heavenly Bodies 46. Its Diftribution, fo as to cause all the Parts of the Globe to Balance each other 48. { Be helpful to one another. The great Variety and Quantity of all Things ferving for Food, Phyfick, Building, and every Ufe and Occafion of all Ages, Places, and Creatures 53. An Objection answered 55. Particular, of the Earth; of its Conftituent Parts, viz. Its Soils and Moulds, neceffary to the. { Growth of various Vegetables 61. Various Occafions of Man, and other Animals 62. Various Strata or Beds, affording Materials for Tools. Firing. Dying, and thousands of other Things 64. Subterraneous Caverns and Vulcano's; of great Ufe to the Mountains and Valleys, which are not rude Ruins, but Works of Defign, inasmuch as this Structure of the Earth is The moft Beautiful and Pleasant. The most Salubrious: to fome Conftitutions, the Hills; to fome, the Valleys 71. Best to skreen us, and other Things 72. Beneficial to the Production of various Vegetables. Harbour and Maintenance of various Animals 73. Generation of Minerals and Metals 75. Abfolutely neceffary to the Conveyance of the Rivers; and in all Probability to the Origin of Fountains ib. Con Conclufion against blaming GOD 81. Its Inhabitants; which are either Senfitive or Infenfitive. Senfitive, fome Things are Common to all the Tribes, particularly these Ten: [I. The Five Senfes and their Organs; the 85. Eye, an admirable Piece of Mechanifm in regard of its [Form, for the most part Spherical, which is beft for The Reception of Objects. Motion of the Eye 90. Situation in the most commodious Part of the Body Motion, in fome Animals. {Fixed, and the excellent Provision in that All Creatures, according to their Occafions. Number, in fome Animals: { Two 94. More Together with the wife Provifion to prevent double Vision. Parts; fome of which are viewed Tranfiently, the Arteries, Veins, and fome of the Muscles and Tunicks. More ftrictly, fome of the f Muscles, and the excellent Provifion made for Humours, especially the prodigious Finery and Nerves 105. Motory. Guard and Security, provided for by The Reparation of the Aqueous Humour. Covering of the Eye-lids. Strong and curious Bones. Hard and firm Tunicks. Withdrawing them into their Heads 109. Hearing. Its Double, enabling us to hear every Way, and a The Fabrick of the Outward Ear, which is in All Creatures formed, guarded, placed, and eyery way accoutered according to their various Places and Occafions 115. . Man fuitable to his erect Pofture; and all its Parts, the Helix, Tragus, Concha, &c admirably fuited to the Reception and Melioration of Sounds, and the Security of the Part. Inward Ear: In which I take a View of the 121. Auditory Paffage, curioufly tunnelled, tortu ous, and smooth; and being always open, is lined with the naufeous Ear-wax for a Guard. Tuba Euftachiana 122. Bone, particularly hard and context for Guard, and to affift the Sound. Tympanum, and its Membrane, Muscles, and four little Bones to correfpond to all Kinds of Sound. Labyrinth, Semicircular Canals, Cochlea; all made with the utmoft Art 127. Auditory Nerves, one of which is ramified to the Eye, Tongue, Mufcles of the Ear, and to the Heart; whence a great Sympathy between thofe Parts 128. Object, Sound. Under which I confider, The Improvements thereof by the Wit of Man 129. Its Pleafure, and the Power of Mufick 134. Smelling. In which Senfe thefe Things are remarkable, the Noftrils, always open, cartilaginous, and endowed with Muscles 137. Laminæ, ferving for SA Guard against noxious Things 138. The fpreading of the Olfactory Nerves. Prodigious Ufe of it in all, especially fome of the Tafte. The Things most remarkable in which Senfe are, the Nerves fpread about the Tongue and Mouth, with their Guard. The Papillæ, nearly made 140. Situation thereof to be a Centinel to the Stomach Confent thereof with the other Senfes, by fome Feeling 142. Whofe Organ is the Nerves 143. {Which is difperfed through every Part of the Body, and the admirable Benefit thereof. II. Refpiration the grand Act of Animal Life 145. Miniftring to the Circulation of the Blood and Diastole of the Heart. The Parts concerned therein are, The Larynx, with its great Variety of Muscles, &c. for Refpiration, and forming the Voice 148. Trachea and Epiglottis, exquifitely contriv'd and made. Bronchi and Lungs, with their curious Arteries, Veins and Nerves 150. Ribs, Diaphragm, Its Defects in the. and the feveral Muscles concern'd. Fœtus in the Womb 153. Amphibious Creatures 157. Some Animals in Winter. III. The Motion of Animals: Concerning which I confider Tranfiently the Mufcles, and their Structure, their Size, Faftening to the Joints, Motions, &c. 158. Bones, and their curious Make. Joints, with their Form, Bandage, and Lubricity 161. Nerves, and their Origine, Ramifications, and Inofculations. More particularly the Loco-motive Act itself, which is [Swift or flow, with Wings, Legs many or few, or none at all, according to the various Occafions and Ways of Animals Lives. As particularly in Reptiles, whofe Food and Habitation is near at hand. Man and Quadrupeds, whofe Occafions require a larger Range, and therefore a fwifter Motion 164. Birds, and Infects, whofe Food, Habitation and Safety require yet a larger Range, and have accordingly. a yet fwifter Motion and direct Conveyance. Geometrically and neatly performed by the nicest Rules. Well provided for by the Due Equipoife of the Body 165. {Motive Motive Parts being accurately placed with regard to the Center of the Body's Gravity, and to undergo. their due Proportion of Weight and Exercise. |