Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ; organic ...
... formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ; organic ...
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... formation of the strata , would have made their construction impossible : such as the supposition that the materials of the strata , were drawn from mountains of granite , that were ten or fifteen miles above the level of the ocean ...
... formation of the strata , would have made their construction impossible : such as the supposition that the materials of the strata , were drawn from mountains of granite , that were ten or fifteen miles above the level of the ocean ...
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... formation , the ground of an inference of the vast age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of any one of the layers , of which the strata consist ; and that therefore , as many ...
... formation , the ground of an inference of the vast age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of any one of the layers , of which the strata consist ; and that therefore , as many ...
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... formation of the present crust of the globe - in reference , 1st , To the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived ; 2d , To the agents by which they were conveyed to the places of their deposition ; 3d , To the scale ...
... formation of the present crust of the globe - in reference , 1st , To the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived ; 2d , To the agents by which they were conveyed to the places of their deposition ; 3d , To the scale ...
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... formation , is it not clear that no hypothesis respecting the rate at which their formation was accom- plished , can demonstrate it ? May it not be as conclusively proved by their mode of reasoning , that innumerable ages were employed ...
... formation , is it not clear that no hypothesis respecting the rate at which their formation was accom- plished , can demonstrate it ? May it not be as conclusively proved by their mode of reasoning , that innumerable ages were employed ...
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