THEORY

OF THE

EARTH.

From its ORIGINAL, to the
CONSUMMATION of all Things.

WHEREIN

The CREATION of the World in Six Days,
The Univerfal DELUGE,

And the General CONFLAGRATION,
As laid down in the Holy Scriptures,
Are fhewn to be perfectly agreeable to
REASON and PHILOSOPHY.

With a large Introductory Difcourfe concerning the Genu-
ine Nature, Stile, and Extent of the Mofaick History of
the CREATION.

The Second Edition, with great Additions, Im-
provements and Corrections.

By WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A.
Profeffor of the Mathematicks in the Uni-
verfity of CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE:

Printed at the University-Prefs; for Benj. Tooke,
Bookfeller, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, in
Fleet-ftreet, LONDON. 1708.

Summo

Ummo Viro ISAACO NEWTON, Equiti Aurato, Apud Cantabrigienfes quondam Mathefews Profeffori Lucafiano longe Celeberrimo, Apud Londinenfes Societatis Regalis Præfidi Ornatiffimo, nec non Regio Nummorum Cuforum Magiftro; Reipublicæ, quoquò patet, Literariæ Ornamento; Seculi, Gentis, Academiæ egregio Decori; Orbis Philofophici Deliciis. Qui rem literariam, præfertim Mathematicam eoufque Excoluit, Adauxit, Dilatavit, ut ipfam Phyficam intra pomoeria fua complecti, & Mundi Syftema, conatu inaudito, ditioni fux fubjicere tandem aliquando audeat. Quem Morum Candor & Modeftia; Quem Sagax animus & penetrans; Quem affidui Labores, indefeffæ Vigiliæ, Induftria incredibilis, promovendis veræ ac folidæ Sapientiæ ftudiis unicè dicata; Quem Rerum Divina

rum

rum Humanarumque, hoc eft Univerfæ Philofophiæ peritia planè fingularis; Quem demum PHILOSOPHIE NATURALIS, quin & OPTICES fpeciatim, hoc eft mirandorum Lucis & Colorum Phænomenorum PRIN CIPIA MATHEMATICA, auro contra æftimanda, & mortalibus vix aut ne vix quidé propalanda temerè, Ultima pofteritati æternùm Commendabunt. Exiguum hocce Tentaminis Philofophici Spicilegium, è Mefle New TONIANA primitùs fublectum Subfidiis, Confiliis, Aufpiciis potiffimùm NEWTONIANIS acceptum, uti par eft, referendum ratus, Totum hoc, qualecunque fit, NEWTONI nomini, in omne ævum perennaturo, Nuncupandum; &, in Grati Animi Muógovor, Confecrandum cenfuit Gulielmus Whifton. 6°. Kal. April. A. D 1708.

NEW

ERRATA. In the Lemmata, pag. 35. lin. 26, 27. for Jupiter read Saturn. And in the Solutions, p. 4232lin 16.& pag.424. lin. 26. for twenty eighth read twenty feventh.

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