The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684)


The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684)



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TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty.

PREFACE TO THE READER.

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH. BOOK I
  CHAP. I.
  CHAP. II.
  CHAP. III.
  CHAP. IV.
  CHAP. V.
  CHAP. VI.
  CHAP. VII.
  CHAP. VIII.
  CHAP. IX.
  CHAP. X.
  CHAP. XI.
  CHAP. XII.

THE THEORY OF THE EARTH. BOOK II
  CHAP. I.
  CHAP. II.
  CHAP. III.
  CHAP. IV.
  CHAP. V.
  CHAP. VI.
  CHAP. VII.
  CHAP. VIII.
  CHAP. IX.
  CHAP. X.
  CHAP. XI.

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TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty.

SIR,

NEW-found Lands and Countries accrew to the Prince, whose Subject makes the first Discovery; And having retriev'd a World that had been lost, for some thousands of Years, out of the Memory of Man, and the Records of Time, I thought it my Duty to lay it at Your Majestie's Feet. 'Twill not enlarge Your Dominions, 'tis past and gone; nor dare I say it will enlarge Your Thoughts; But I hope it may gratifie Your Princely curiosity to read the Description of it, and see the Fate that attended it.

We have still the broken Materials of that first World, and walk upon its Ruines; while it stood, there was the Seat of Paradise, and the Scenes of the Golden Age; when it fell, it made the Deluge; And this unshapen Earth we now inhabit, is the

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