The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849)Clarendon Press, 1983 - 322 sider Describes the early nineteenth-century English contributions to the revolutionary discovery that the earth has existed long before man and that it had passed through a progressive sequence of changes. |
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... Association . Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray , in their exhaustive study of the first decade of the British Association , describe how it formulated its ideology during the first three meetings at York , Oxford , and Cambridge.1 It ...
... Association . Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray , in their exhaustive study of the first decade of the British Association , describe how it formulated its ideology during the first three meetings at York , Oxford , and Cambridge.1 It ...
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... Association . At its first meeting in Canterbury in 1844 Buckland gave a memorable paper ' On the Contents of some Sepulchral Barrows near Canterbury'.20 The continued lack of convincing instances of human fossils gradually persuaded ...
... Association . At its first meeting in Canterbury in 1844 Buckland gave a memorable paper ' On the Contents of some Sepulchral Barrows near Canterbury'.20 The continued lack of convincing instances of human fossils gradually persuaded ...
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... Association of 1832 , he wrote : ' At the soiree of the British Association at Oxford , I saw Buckland , of course a prominent personage in the room , and surrounded by an admiring circle , take out of his pocket a white handkerchief ...
... Association of 1832 , he wrote : ' At the soiree of the British Association at Oxford , I saw Buckland , of course a prominent personage in the room , and surrounded by an admiring circle , take out of his pocket a white handkerchief ...
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Geology and Classical Learning | 51 |
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