A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred HistoryLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - 621 páginas |
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Andrew Ure. Composition and complex relations of water ,. Creation of the vegetable world , • Creation and analogies of fishes and fowls , Primeval state of man , CHAP . V. - Primitive Rock Formations , Crust of the globe , formed from ...
Andrew Ure. Composition and complex relations of water ,. Creation of the vegetable world , • Creation and analogies of fishes and fowls , Primeval state of man , CHAP . V. - Primitive Rock Formations , Crust of the globe , formed from ...
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... vegetable and animal beings . These facts may be very few , no more than are merely sufficient to teach the pious mind to confide in the GREAT FIRST CAUSE , instead of losing itself in an endless labyrinth of conjecture . But still they ...
... vegetable and animal beings . These facts may be very few , no more than are merely sufficient to teach the pious mind to confide in the GREAT FIRST CAUSE , instead of losing itself in an endless labyrinth of conjecture . But still they ...
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... vegetable and animal beings . Fourier has exercised his profound mathematical skill in proving , that the state of calorific equilibrium is now nearly attained , or that the waste by radiation into celestial space is nearly compensated ...
... vegetable and animal beings . Fourier has exercised his profound mathematical skill in proving , that the state of calorific equilibrium is now nearly attained , or that the waste by radiation into celestial space is nearly compensated ...
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... vegetable mould may be formed , which multiplied by 7 , carries us back to a period only 600 years after the deluge . Prior to the appearance of Brydone's book , Sir William Hamilton had shown that over Herculaneum in less than 1700 ...
... vegetable mould may be formed , which multiplied by 7 , carries us back to a period only 600 years after the deluge . Prior to the appearance of Brydone's book , Sir William Hamilton had shown that over Herculaneum in less than 1700 ...
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... vegetable mould ; the substance which really intervenes between the beds being nothing more than a sort of ferruginous tuff , just similar to what would be pro- duced by a shower of volcanic ashes , such as usually pre- cedes or follows ...
... vegetable mould ; the substance which really intervenes between the beds being nothing more than a sort of ferruginous tuff , just similar to what would be pro- duced by a shower of volcanic ashes , such as usually pre- cedes or follows ...
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