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An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes, : in three books: I. The institution, in X. parts; 1. Logick. 2. Natural theology. 3. Dæmonology, or of created spirits. 4. General physicks, or natural philosophy, generally considered. 5. Special natural philosophy, of the world and heaven. 6. The four great bodies, earth, water, air and fire, and what have their rise from them; where, of metals and meteors. 7. Of living things in general, and in particular of plants and animals. 8. Man, in respect to his body. 9. Man, as to his mind or soul. And, 10. Ethicks, or moral philosophy, treating of man's right ordering his life. II. The history of nature, which illustrates the institution, and consists of great variety of experiments relating thereto, and explained by the same principles, in IX. parts, 1. Of bodies. 2. Of qualities. 3. Of the earth and heaven. 4. Of the earth, water, fire and air. 5. Of things dug out of the earth. 6. Of meteors. 7. Of plants. 8. Of animals. And, 9. Of man. III. A dissertation of the want of sense and knowledge in brute animals, in II. parts, giving a mechanical account of their operations. / Written originally in Latin by the learned Anthony Le Grand. Now carefully translated from the last corrections, alterations, and large additions of the author, never yet published. The whole work illustrated with almost an hundred sculptures dispersed to such places as best admit thereof: all designed, drawn and engraven historically by good artists. Besides the figures or schemes for the explanation of the philosophical parts that require the same. Endeavoured to be done, that it may be of use and delight to the ingenious of both sexes. By Richard Blome..

Fire, water, heaven and earth : ritual practice and cosmology in ancient Scandinavia : an Indo-European perspective / by Anders Kaliff ; [translation, Alan Crozier].

From heaven to hell : imagery of earth, air, water and fire in the novels of Georges Bernanos / (by) Daniel R. Morris.