42 TRE HISTORY OF BEES: 
and flowers, but efpecially in the feyeral parts of ani- 
mals, fuch accurate elegant order, admirable beauty and 
fymmetry in the frame and compofition of the minuteft 
creatures, as no man Could conceive or credit without 
beholding them. 4 
“ More particularly thofe in human bedies. The 
“ confideration of which induced Galen to acknowledge. 
* a Deity. 
“In his book de formatione fetus, he obferves more 
«‘ than 600 feveral mufcles in a human body, and at 
“¢ Jeaft ten different intentions or due qualifications to be. 
¢¢ obferved in each of thefe. Proper figure, jut mag. 
< nitude, right difpofition of it’s feveral ends, upper and 
“© lower pofition of the whole, the infertion of it’s pro- 
€¢ per nerves, veins, and arteries, all which are to be 
‘* duly placed ; fo that about the mufcies alone, no lefs 
«6 than 6000 feveral ends or aims are to be attended to. 
© The bones he reckons to be 284. The diftind fcopes 
‘or intentions in each of thefe, are above 40. in all — 
*¢ about 100,000. And it is the fame in proportion 
“¢ with the other parts, w/z, the fkin, ligaments, veficls, 
¢¢ plandules, and humours ; but more efpecially with the 
* feveral members of the body, which do, in regard of 
¢¢ the great variety and multitude of the feveral intenti- 
¢ ons that are required in them, very much exceed the 
¢* homogeneous parts. And the failing in any one of thefe 
‘¢ would caufe an irregularity in the body, which in ma- 
s¢ ny of them would be very notorious. 
«> And thus likewife it is in proportion with other 
t« kinds of beings, minerals, vegetables; but more ef- 
“© pecially 
