Topic
Sciences
31 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 6:14–16Torrey Mechanics
¶ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits,…
- Genesis 10:1–30Torrey Geography
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and…
- Genesis 11:4Torrey Mechanics
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 15:5Torrey Arithmetic
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- Exodus 14:6Torrey Mechanics
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
- Exodus 14:7Torrey Mechanics
And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
- Leviticus 26:8Torrey Arithmetic
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Deuteronomy 8:12Torrey Architecture
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- Joshua 18:4–9Torrey Surveying
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah…
- 1 Kings 4:33Torrey Botany
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
- 1 Kings 9:27Torrey Navigation
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 22:39Torrey History and Chronology
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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- 2 Kings 1:18 Torrey History and Chronology
- 1 Chronicles 9:1 Torrey History and Chronology
- 1 Chronicles 16:4–7 Torrey Music
- 1 Chronicles 25:6 Torrey Music
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 Torrey Architecture
- 1 Chronicles 29:29 Torrey History and Chronology
- Nehemiah 2:12–16 Torrey Surveying
- Job 29:18 Torrey Arithmetic
- Job 38:31 Torrey Astronomy
- Job 38:32 Torrey Astronomy
- Psalms 107:23 Torrey Navigation
- Isaiah 11:11 Torrey Geography
- Isaiah 13:10 Torrey Astronomy
- Isaiah 47:13 Torrey Astrology
- Jeremiah 8:22 Torrey Medicine
- Ezekiel 40:5 Torrey Surveying
- Ezekiel 40:6 Torrey Surveying
- Zechariah 2:2 Torrey Surveying
- Mark 5:26 Torrey Medicine
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 32 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Architecture De 8:12; 1Ch 29:19
- Arithmetic Ge 15:5; Le 26:8; Job 29:18
- Astronomy Job 38:31,32; Isa 13:10
- Astrology Isa 47:13
- Botany 1Ki 4:33
- Geography Ge 10:1-30; Isa 11:11
- History and Chronology 1Ki 22:39; 2Ki 1:18; 1Ch 9:1; 29:29
- Mechanics Ge 6:14-16; 11:4; Ex 14:6,7
- Medicine Jer 8:22; Mr 5:26
- Music 1Ch 16:4-7; 25:6
- Navigation 1Ki 9:27; Ps 107:23
- Surveying Jos 18:4-9; Ne 2:12-16; Eze 40:5,6; Zec 2:2
- Zoology 1Ki 4:33
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.