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| Author | translated by Jean-Jaques Scheuchzer |
| Title | Physique Sacrée. ou Histoire-Naturelle de la Bible |
| City | n.c. |
| Publisher | n.p. |
| Year | 1732 |
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| Collection | Lavoisier |
| Catalog No. | BS660.S32++ 1732 v.1 |
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| Notes | engravings by Jean-André Pfeffel. This enormous work, in eight folio volumes, represents an attempt to find correspondances between the Bible and the then current state of scientific research and evidence. The hundreds of extravagant engravings depict the struggle between faith (or superstition) and science. |
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