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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... central heat , which stated that the earth had originated as an incandescent mass , that this mass had cooled down gradually and acquired a solid crust , and still retained a core of primeval heat . The central heat was believed to have ...
... central heat , which stated that the earth had originated as an incandescent mass , that this mass had cooled down gradually and acquired a solid crust , and still retained a core of primeval heat . The central heat was believed to have ...
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... central heat was launched , predictably , by Greenough in an anniversary address to the Geological Society.13 Lyell rejected the theory because of its corollary of linear , progres- sive change.1 Lindley and Hutton rejected Brongniart's ...
... central heat was launched , predictably , by Greenough in an anniversary address to the Geological Society.13 Lyell rejected the theory because of its corollary of linear , progres- sive change.1 Lindley and Hutton rejected Brongniart's ...
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... central heat . De la Beche in his Geological Manual ( 1831 ) , Conybeare in his Report ( 1832 ) , Sedgwick in his Discourse ( 1832 ) , and Phillips in his Guide to Geology ( 1834 ) successively came out in cautious support for the ...
... central heat . De la Beche in his Geological Manual ( 1831 ) , Conybeare in his Report ( 1832 ) , Sedgwick in his Discourse ( 1832 ) , and Phillips in his Guide to Geology ( 1834 ) successively came out in cautious support for the ...
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