Note b — BOOK I.

Of this Opinion was my late most ingenious and learned Friend, Mr. Ray, whose Reasons see in his Physico-Theolog. Discourses, Disc. 2. ch. 2. p. 89, &c. So also my no less learned and ingenious Friends, Dr. Halley, and the late Dr. Hook, many of the French Vertuoso’s also, and divers other very considerable Men before them, too many to be specified here.