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Plate from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée

In his Physique sacrée (Amsterdam, 1732–37), a natural history of the
Bible, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer availed him-self of Newton’s optics to
explain God’s gift of the rainbow following the Deluge.– General Research
Division, NYPL
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