Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science: Being Extracts from the Writings of Men of Science to Illustrate the Development of Scientific Thought |
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Page 1 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years...
Page 2 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 2 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth...
Page 2 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 1 - Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters : " and God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so ; and God called the firmament Heaven.
Page 1 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 2 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 231 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as, for instance, with fennel: and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance, with Englishmen.
Page 1 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 2 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
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| Title | Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science: Being Extracts from the Writings of Men of Science to Illustrate the Development of Scientific Thought |
| Editors | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier |
| Compiled by | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Anderson |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 275 pages |
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