The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. The two first books, concerning the deluge and concerning paradise (1684)
Burnet, Thomas, Sir, 1632?-1715? · London : Printed by R. Norton, for W. Kettilby · leaf 80
it being well known, that thefe two kinds mixt together, if left to thcrn- fclves and the general action of Nature, feparate one from another when they come to lettle, as in Cream and thin Milk, Oil and Water, and fuch like 5 we cannot but conclude, that the lame Effect would fol¬ low here, and the… … Hitherto the changes of the Chaos are eafie and unqueftionable, and would be difpatcht in a Ihort time 5 we muff now look over again thele two great maffes of the Air and Water > and confider how their impurities or groffer parts would be difposdof 5 for we cannot imagine but they were both at…
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