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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... included Henry Thomas de la Beche , Roderick Impey Murchison , and John Phillips , who later succeeded Buckland as professor of geology at Oxford . Among the overseas advocates of English geology were the outspoken explorer George ...
... included Henry Thomas de la Beche , Roderick Impey Murchison , and John Phillips , who later succeeded Buckland as professor of geology at Oxford . Among the overseas advocates of English geology were the outspoken explorer George ...
Side 44
... included this essay in a book on the history of Kirby Moorside , Historia Rievallensis ( 1824 ) . Eastmead did not question the hyena den theory . " That this Cave was the habitation of Hyaenas , ' he wrote , ' is , I conceive , from ...
... included this essay in a book on the history of Kirby Moorside , Historia Rievallensis ( 1824 ) . Eastmead did not question the hyena den theory . " That this Cave was the habitation of Hyaenas , ' he wrote , ' is , I conceive , from ...
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... included the substantial additions of Secondary and Tertiary stratigraphy . Other Wernerians did the same , especially Humboldt , whose treatise on stratigraphy was published simultaneously in French and German in 1823 and translated ...
... included the substantial additions of Secondary and Tertiary stratigraphy . Other Wernerians did the same , especially Humboldt , whose treatise on stratigraphy was published simultaneously in French and German in 1823 and translated ...
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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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