Conversations on the Plurality of WorldsFontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier)
Philosophy
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier)
Plurality of worlds
Abstinence; Old Age; Curiosities in the Animal Kingdom; Singular
Antipathies; Remarkable Attachments; Extraneous Bodies; Phænomena
of the Human Bones; Brains; Wonderful Caverns; Forward Children;
Extraordinary Conformations; Remarkable Deafness; Apparent Death;
Extraordinary Divers; Wonderful Dwarfs; Dreadful Earthquakes which
have happened in various parts of the World; Extraordinary Eaters;
Curious Structure of the Eye; Instances of Fecundity; Fermentation;
Fire-damps; Subterranean Fires; Curious Fish; Wonderful Description of
Human Hair; Phænomena of Heat and Cold; Dreadful Hurricanes; Ice, and
Ice-houses described; Inundations, and the Properties of the Loadstone;
Powers of the Imagination; History of Mutes; Northern Lights Described;
Dreadful Maladies; Meteors; Remarkable Instances of Memory; Properties
of Mirth; Account of a Curious White Negro; Deviations from Nature;
Effects of Phosphorus; Rains; Extraordinary Men; Remarkable Accounts of
Monsters; Ventriloquists; Volcanoes; Thunder; Plants; Stones; Rocks;
Sleep-walkers; Petrified Bodies; Trees; Vegetation; Water-spouts; &c.
&c. including all the remarkable
_PHÆNOMENA IN NATURE_;
philosophically, and physically explained; forming the most curious and
interesting Collection of the Wonders of Nature ever published; the
whole alphabetically arranged; with a complete Index.
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To me be NATURE'S volume broad display'd,
And to peruse its all-instructive pages, my sole delight.
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⁂ Such is the interesting nature of the contents of this work, that it
is equally calculated to entertain and instruct every class of readers.
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London:
_Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane_;
Sold by T. HURST, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of every
Bookseller in the Empire.
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Transcriber Note
Minor typos corrected. To accommodate placement a footnote, a
paragraph break was added on page 126.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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