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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... Biblical Literalists To appreciate the quality of Buckland's work on bone caves we must not compare it with geological work done later in the century , not even with his own , but put it in the context of the literature on the subject ...
... Biblical Literalists To appreciate the quality of Buckland's work on bone caves we must not compare it with geological work done later in the century , not even with his own , but put it in the context of the literature on the subject ...
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... biblical over profane sources of chronology and ancient history was defended by writers like Stillingfleet , whose Origines Sacrae became a long - standing bestseller of Oxford's Clarendon Press . Biblical history and chronology ...
... biblical over profane sources of chronology and ancient history was defended by writers like Stillingfleet , whose Origines Sacrae became a long - standing bestseller of Oxford's Clarendon Press . Biblical history and chronology ...
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... biblical literalists , who fell back on the scholarship of such figures as Scaliger and Petavius , or on Hales's more recent version of historical chronology . However , the autonomy of geology and its implicit rise in rank as an ...
... biblical literalists , who fell back on the scholarship of such figures as Scaliger and Petavius , or on Hales's more recent version of historical chronology . However , the autonomy of geology and its implicit rise in rank as an ...
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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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