The conclusion of this dayes work.
ANd thus at the last I have let you take a view with* 1.1 me of what is pertinent to this dayes work. We
Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.
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- Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.
- Author
- Swan, John, d. 1671.
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- [Cambridge] :: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel,] the printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge,
- 1635.
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- Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13217.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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have seen (good reader) the framing of the out-spread Firmament, with the lifting up of the waters over it▪ we have examined the nature of the heavens, and scarce found them of a quint-essence: we have searched what heavens they were which Moses meant when he said, God called the firmament Heavens. From thence we pro∣ceeded to the severall regions of the aire, examining their temperatures and qualities; and thereupon we fell into an ample consideration of such appearances as are usu∣ally seen in any of those Regions; discoursing at large both of fierie, waterie, and aierie Meteors.
And this being all which this day affordeth, I may here make and end, and say
That eve and morn conclude the second day, And in his work God findeth no decay.
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A conclusion re∣peating the sum ne of this dayes work.