Heroes of Science: Botanists, Zoologists, and GeologistsSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1882 - 348 páginas |
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afterwards Alps ammonite amongst anatomy animals appears Aristoteles Auvergne became beds began Black Notley botanist botany Buffon called Candolle changes classification Cloth boards coal collection coloured Crown 8vo Cuvier distinguished earth England father fossils France garden gave Geneva Geological Society geologist glacier habits Hermeias honour Hutton Illustrations on toned insects interesting journey Jura Mountains kind knowledge labour Lamarck land learned lectures Linnæus living Lyell master method mind Miocene Montpellier Murchison natural history naturalist never noticed observed oolite Paris plants present Professor pupils Pythagoras Réaumur remarkable resemblance returned rocks scientific shells Smith soon species stamens Steno strata student succession teaching Theophrastus things Three full-page Illustrations tion toned paper took travelled truth Upsala valley visited whilst writings wrote young youth zoologist zoology
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Página 4 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 233 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.
Página 233 - ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.
Página 214 - ... depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath the sea, for this is more moveable, and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity*.