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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... interest . Greenough , however , irreparably compromised his reputation with A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology ( 1819 ) . Its excessive Baconian empiricism denied the possibility of an integrated earth history in ...
... interest . Greenough , however , irreparably compromised his reputation with A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology ( 1819 ) . Its excessive Baconian empiricism denied the possibility of an integrated earth history in ...
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... interest and the subject of an emotional debate at the Geological Society in London . During the following decade interest in Diluvium subsided and its place was taken by a preoccupation with older rocks and fossils . By around 1840 the ...
... interest and the subject of an emotional debate at the Geological Society in London . During the following decade interest in Diluvium subsided and its place was taken by a preoccupation with older rocks and fossils . By around 1840 the ...
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... interest in science at Oxford . In the preface to his lecture he expressed some satisfaction : ' Oxford is now strong enough to say without boasting , that though clouds soon obscured her bright dawn of natural science , which ...
... interest in science at Oxford . In the preface to his lecture he expressed some satisfaction : ' Oxford is now strong enough to say without boasting , that though clouds soon obscured her bright dawn of natural science , which ...
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