Inuction of the Head of the Bones, with thefe Juices, is useful, 1. To facilitate Motion. 2. To prevent Attrition

Why the Bones are made hollow

Page 286 287

Why the Belly is fleshy, and not inclosed with Bones like the Breaft

288

The Motion of the Guts 289. Of the Liver and Tfe of the Gall ibid. Of the Bladder, its Structure and Use, of the Kidneys and Glandules, and Ureters, their Compofition and Uses ibid. The adapting all the Bones, Mufcles, and Veffels, to their several Ufes, and the joyning and compacting of them together noted 290 The Geometrical Contrivance of the Mufcles, and fitting them for their feveral Motions and Actions, according to the exactest Rules of Mechanicks The packing and thrusting together fuch a Multitude of various and different Parts fo clafe, that there should be no unnecessary Vacuity in the Body, nor any clashing between them, but mutual Assistance, admirale

ibid.

ibid.

Membranes capable of a prodigious Extention, Ufe, in Geftation of Twins, &c.

291

The Parts that feem of little or no Ufe, as the Fat, fhewn to be greatly useful 292. How feparated from the Blood, and received into it again

293, 294

The Confideration of the Formation of the Foetus in the Womb waved, and why

295, 296

What a Fitness the Seed hath to Fashion and Form, and why the Child refembles the Parent, and fometimes the Ancestor

296 The Conftruction of a Set of Temporary Parts, for the Use of the Foetus only while in the Womb, a clear Proof of Defign 297 No equivocal or Spontaneous Generation, but that all Animals are generated by Animal-Parents of their own Kind 298, 299. and probably all Plants too produced by Seed, and none Spontaneous, proved and vindicated, and the Objections against it answered 300 to 307 That the Coffus of the Ancients was not the Hexapod of a Beetle, as I thought, but an Eruca, agreed with Dr. Lifter. 307 The Loufe Searching out fordid and nafty Cloths to harbour and breed in, probably defigned to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Uncleanliness

308 An additional and most effectual Argument against Spontaneous Generation; viz. That there are no new Species of Animals produced 308, 309

Whence thofe vaft Numbers of Small Frogs, which have been obferved to appear upon refreshing Showers, after Drought, do probably proceed, hewn in an Inftance of his own Obfervations by Mr. Derham 316, 317

Of

Of Toads found in the Heart of Timber-Trees, and in the Middle of great Stones 323,324 Mifcellaneous Obfervations concerning the Structure, Actions, and Ufes of fome Parts of Animals omitted in the first Part.

1.

As alfo

the Reafons of fome Inftincts and Actions of Brutes 325, 326, &c. The Swines Snout fitted for digging up of Roots, which are his Natural Food, as likewife the Porpeffe for rooting up of Sand-Eels. The Manner and Organs of Refpiration accommodate to the Temper of Animals, their Place and Manner of Living fhewn in three Sorts of Refpiration. By Lungs, with two Ve tricles of the Heart in botter Animals 327. 2. By Lungs, with but one Ventricle. 3. By Gills, with one only Ventricle of the Heart 329, &c. Why the Foramen Ovale, is kept open in fome Amphibious Animals 330. In fome of them the Epiglottis is large, and why 331. No Epiglottis in Elephants, and why; and how that Creature fecures himself from Mice creeping up his Probofcis into bis Lungs

332

Two notable Obfervations of the Sagacity of the Tortoife, the one of the Land, the other of the Sea-Tortoife 333, 334 The Armour of the Hedge-Hog, and Taton, and their Power of contracting themselves into a round Ball, a great Inftance of Defign for their Defence and Security 335, 336 The Manner and Ufe of the extending and withdrawing the Curtain of the Periophthalmium, or nictating Membrane in Beafts and Birds 338, 339. That the Aqueous Humour of the Eye will not freeze 343 Of the Make of a Camel's Foot, and his Bags to referve Water in his Stomach for his Needs 344, 345 The Use of rapacious Creatures fwallowing fome of the Hair, Furr, and Feathers, of the Beafts or Birds they prey upon 344, 345 A Conjecture by what Means Cartilaginous Fishes raife and fink themfelves into the Water

346

347

348

That Nature employs all the Methods and Artifices of Chymifts, in analyzing of Bodies, and feparating their Parts, and outdoes them, and the feveral Particulars inftanced in Obfervations about the Gullet and Diaphragm An admirable Story out of Galen, about the taking a Kid out of the Womb of its Dam, and bringing it up by Hand, and Remarks upon it 349, 353 The natural Texture of Membranes fo made, as to be immenfly dilatable, of great Use and Neceffity in Geftation

353

A notable Inftance of Providence, in the Make of the Veins and Ar

teries near the Heart

354, 355

An Anfwer to an Objection against the Wisdom of God, in making inferior Ranks of Creatures

357

The

The Atheists main Subterfuge and Pretence, to elude and evade all our Arguments and Inftances, to demonftrate the Necessity of Providence Defign and Wifdom, in the Formation of all the Parts of the World, viz. That Things made Uses, and not Uses Things, precluded and confuted 357 358 Of the Ufe of thofe vaft Numbers of prodigiously small Infects that are

bred in the Waters 363, 364 An Objection against the Wisdom of God, in creating fuch a Multitude of useless Infects, and fome alfo noxious and pernicious to Man, and other Animals, anfwered, and the various Ufe of them declared 368, 369, &c. Many Practical Inferences and Obfervations, from 375 to the End of the Book.

THE

FIRST PART

OF THE

Wildom of God

Manifefted in the

WORKS

OF THE ·

CREATION.

PSAL. civ. 24.

How manifold are thy Works, O Lord! In Wisdom haft thou made them all.

I

N thefe Words are two Claufes, in the first whereof the Pfalmist admires the Multitude of God's Works, How manifold are thy Works, O Lord! In the fecond he celebrates his Wisdom in the Creation of them; In Wisdom haft thou made

them all.

C

Of

Of the first of these I shall say little, only briefly run over the Works of this vifible World, and give fome guess at the Number of them; whence it will appear, that that upon this account they will deserve Admiration, the Number of them being uninveftigable by us, and fo affording us a demonstrative Proof of the unlimited Extent of the Creator's Skill,and the Fœcundity of his Wisdom and Power. That the Number of corporeal Creatures is unmeasurably great, and known only to the Creator himfelf, may thus probably be collected : · First of all, the Numbers of fix'd Stars is on all hands acknowledg'd to be next to infinite: Secondly, Every fix'd Star, in the now-receiv'd Hypothefis, is a Sun or Sun-like Body, and in like manner incircled with a Chorus of Planets moving about it; for the fix'd Stars are not all placed in one and the fame concave Spherical Superficies, and equidiftant from us, as they feem to be, but are variously and disorderly fituate, fome nearer, fome further off, just like Trees in a Wood or Foreft; as Gaffendus exemplifies them. And as in a Wood, tho' the Trees grow never fo irregularly, yet the Eye of the Spectator, wherever plac'd, or whitherfoever remov❜d,describes still a Circle of Trees: So would it in like manner wherever it were in the Forest or Stars, defcribe a Spherical Superficies about it. Thirdly, Each of these Planets is in all likelihood furnished with as great Variety of corporeal Creatures,animate and inanimate, as the Earth is, and all as different