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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... origin of valleys was Daubeny , who had visited the volcanic district of the Auvergne before Scrope . In a letter to Jameson ' On the Diluvial Theory , and on the Origin of the Valleys of Auvergne ' ( 1831 ) , he defended the Oxford ...
... origin of valleys was Daubeny , who had visited the volcanic district of the Auvergne before Scrope . In a letter to Jameson ' On the Diluvial Theory , and on the Origin of the Valleys of Auvergne ' ( 1831 ) , he defended the Oxford ...
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... origin . This led in the course of the 1780s to a controversy between Neptunists and Vulcanists , the latter headed by Werner's own former pupil J. C. W. Voigt.5 During the same decade James Hutton developed his Plutonist ' System of ...
... origin . This led in the course of the 1780s to a controversy between Neptunists and Vulcanists , the latter headed by Werner's own former pupil J. C. W. Voigt.5 During the same decade James Hutton developed his Plutonist ' System of ...
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... ORIGIN OF DEATH AND SIN Although many of the new discoveries of geology added to the argu- ment from design , they also formed the source of a new and emotive problem . The very existence of fossils indicated that death had occurred ...
... ORIGIN OF DEATH AND SIN Although many of the new discoveries of geology added to the argu- ment from design , they also formed the source of a new and emotive problem . The very existence of fossils indicated that death had occurred ...
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