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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... organic accumulations , such as those composed of coral limestone . ' Strata thus loaded with the exuviae of innumerable generations of organic beings , afford strong proof of the lapse of long periods of time , wherein the animals from ...
... organic accumulations , such as those composed of coral limestone . ' Strata thus loaded with the exuviae of innumerable generations of organic beings , afford strong proof of the lapse of long periods of time , wherein the animals from ...
Side 169
... Organic Evolution Denounced In the secondary literature there is much confusion concerning the meaning of progressive development . Its acceptance tends to be inter- preted as indicating evolutionary leanings . ' To most English in the ...
... Organic Evolution Denounced In the secondary literature there is much confusion concerning the meaning of progressive development . Its acceptance tends to be inter- preted as indicating evolutionary leanings . ' To most English in the ...
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... organic types in the successive for- mations of the earth ... we have a series of proofs the most emphatic and convincing ... that the approach to the present system of things has been gradual , and that there has been a progressive ...
... organic types in the successive for- mations of the earth ... we have a series of proofs the most emphatic and convincing ... that the approach to the present system of things has been gradual , and that there has been a progressive ...
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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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