\The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation\" by John Ray. A photograph of the ninth edition of 1727 with quill pen. In this book Ray developed Natural Theology for an English audience. He argues that the proof of God is clear through the evidence of the benign orderly structure and function of the world. The first edition was published by Ray in 1691. Enlarged editions followed up to the 4th edn in 1704. The work remained his most popular going through more editions well into the 18th Century (as this ninth edition 1727). It was widely emulated by authors such as William Derham and most famously William Paley, (with whose name, Natural Theology is now most associated due to his use of the \"watch analogy\" or \"Paley's Watch\"). In 1844 the Ray Society was founded, one of their first published books was Darwin's weighty tome on Barnacles (1854)."