i66 neWisDOM of GOD Part L 



Laftly, I might draw an Argument of the ad- 

 mirable Art and Skill of the Creator and Com- 

 pofer of them, from the incredible Smalnefs of 

 fome of thofe natural and enlivened Machines, 

 the Body of Animals. 



Any Work of Art of extraordinary Finenefs 

 and Subtlety, be it but a fmall Engine or Move- 

 ment, or a curious carved or turned Work of 

 Ivory or Metals, fuch as thofe Cups turned of 

 Ivory by O/walJiis Nerlinger of Suevia, men- 

 tion'd by Joa??, Faber^ in his Expofitions of Rec-- 

 chus his Mexican Animals, which all had the 

 perfecft Form of Cups, and were gilt with a 

 Golden Border about the Brim, of that wonder- 

 ful Smalnefs, that F^^^r himfelf put a thoufand 

 of them into an excavated Pepper-corn ; and 

 when he was weary of the Work, and yet had not 

 filled the Veflel, his Friend, John Carlm Schad^ 

 that {hewed them him, put in four hundred 

 more. Any fuch Work, I fay, is beheld with 

 Admiration, and purchafed at a great Rate, and 

 treafured up as a fmgular Rarity in the MuJ'ceiim$ 

 and Cabinets of the Curious, and as fuch is one 

 of the firft Things fhewed to T^ravellen and 

 Strangers. But what are thefe for their Finenefs 

 and Parvity (for which alone, and their Figure, 

 they are confiderable) to thofe minute Machines 

 endued with Life and Motion, I mean, the Bo- 

 dies of thofe A?iimalcida^ not long fince difcover- 

 ed in Pepper-water, by Mr. Leuenboek, of Delft 

 in Holland, (whofe Obfervations were confirm- 

 ed and improved by our Learned and Worthy 



Country- 



