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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... phenomena . These phenomena had been discussed by a succession of authors from Alexander Catcott on , and at Oxford they had been competently described by Kidd in his Geological Essay ( 1815 ) . In an appendix to his inaugural lecture ...
... phenomena . These phenomena had been discussed by a succession of authors from Alexander Catcott on , and at Oxford they had been competently described by Kidd in his Geological Essay ( 1815 ) . In an appendix to his inaugural lecture ...
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... phenomena should be explained ' by reference to causes now in operation ' , or by the rare event of a cataclysmal inundation . With regard to this issue , which was debated to a large extent in terms of the origin of valleys , the ...
... phenomena should be explained ' by reference to causes now in operation ' , or by the rare event of a cataclysmal inundation . With regard to this issue , which was debated to a large extent in terms of the origin of valleys , the ...
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... Phenomena Around 1830 the interpretation of diluvial phenomena was a major focus of interest and the subject of an emotional debate at the Geological Society in London . During the following decade interest in Diluvium subsided and its ...
... Phenomena Around 1830 the interpretation of diluvial phenomena was a major focus of interest and the subject of an emotional debate at the Geological Society in London . During the following decade interest in Diluvium subsided and its ...
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