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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William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849) Nicolaas A. Rupke. 1656 , but 2256 years of antediluvial time ) , and he rejected Buckland's cave theory in favour of the drift alternative.11 Buckland was undoubtedly ...
William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849) Nicolaas A. Rupke. 1656 , but 2256 years of antediluvial time ) , and he rejected Buckland's cave theory in favour of the drift alternative.11 Buckland was undoubtedly ...
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... Buckland's originality still showed when Sopwith drew a famous cartoon which depicted Buckland with arctic and glacial insignia , and when Duncan composed humorous verse on a conversation between Buckland and a glacial boulder.33 ...
... Buckland's originality still showed when Sopwith drew a famous cartoon which depicted Buckland with arctic and glacial insignia , and when Duncan composed humorous verse on a conversation between Buckland and a glacial boulder.33 ...
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... Buckland who joined in 1813 , paid lip - service to its Baconian ideals , but they readily committed themselves to theory . Buckland's philosophy can best be characterized as eclectic , neither Wernerian nor Huttonian , but considering ...
... Buckland who joined in 1813 , paid lip - service to its Baconian ideals , but they readily committed themselves to theory . Buckland's philosophy can best be characterized as eclectic , neither Wernerian nor Huttonian , but considering ...
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HYENA DENS AND THE DELUGE Diluvial Geology as | 29 |
Objections by Biblical Literalists | 42 |
Geology and Classical Learning | 51 |
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