The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

John Ray — EEBO-TCP A58185, keyed from the 1691 first edition.

The book that made natural theology an English habit of mind, grown out of Ray’s divinity lectures in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. It clears the Epicurean and Cartesian accounts of the world out of the way and then goes through the creation in order — the heavens, the elements, meteors, minerals, plants, and at greatest length animals and the human body — reading contrivance off each in turn. Paley’s Natural Theology is its grandchild, and Darwin read it.

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Contents (12)

The Dedication
The Preface
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
The Epicurean Hypothesis rejected
The Cartesian Hypothesis considered and censured
Of the visible Works of God and their Division
Of the Heavenly Bodies
Of Terrestrial inanimate simple Bodies
Of Meteors
Of Inanimate mixt Bodies
Of Vegetables or Plants
Of Bodies endued with a Sensitive Soul, or Animals

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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Contents (12)

Of Bodies endued with a Sensitive Soul, or Animals

Of Vegetables or Plants

Of Inanimate mixt Bodies

Of Meteors

Of Terrestrial inanimate simple Bodies

Of the Heavenly Bodies

Of the visible Works of God and their Division

The Cartesian Hypothesis considered and censured

The Epicurean Hypothesis rejected

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

The Preface

The Dedication