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Available
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London: Printed by T.H. for Edward Dod, 1646, 386 pp
Description
This is the full text of Sir Thomas Borwne's classic work edited by Wilkins.
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Prix Laure-Bataillon (2005)
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Physical description
386 p.; 28 cm
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Adam had no navel--otherwise we would be required to believe "that in the first and most accomplished peece, the Creator affected superfluities" --except metaphorically: "All the Navell therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker."
"Now the Navel being a part, not precedent, but subsequent unto generation, nativity or parturition, it cannot be well imagined at the creation or extraordinary formation of Adam, who immediately issued from the Artifice of God; nor also that of Eve, who was not solemnly begotten, but suddenly framed, and anomalously proceeded from Adam."
"Now the Navel being a part, not precedent, but subsequent unto generation, nativity or parturition, it cannot be well imagined at the creation or extraordinary formation of Adam, who immediately issued from the Artifice of God; nor also that of Eve, who was not solemnly begotten, but suddenly framed, and anomalously proceeded from Adam."