The Sacred 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 consumation of all things (1719)
Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · London : Printed for John Hooke · leaf 134
pr if vve adniip for the Tclk a Central Firi^ (whicf^ The Deluge and Biffolution of the Earth, 87(which though very reafonable, we had nooccafion to take Notice of in our Theory ofthe Chaos) and fuppofe the Figure of theEarth Ovaly and a little extended towards thePoles, (as probably it was, feeing… … f^a^.Sj. %% the two inmofi Regions (A, B) reprefentthe Yolk and the Membrane that lies next a-bove iti fo the Exteriour Region of the Earth(D) is as the Shell of t;he Egg, and the A-byfs (C) under it as the White that lies underthe Shell. And confidering that this Notionof the Mundane Egg:, or that…
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