The Science-history of the Universe, Band 2Francis Rolt-Wheeler Current Literature Publishing Company, 1909 |
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Seite 44 - However trivial a thing," he says, " a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or medals, since the best of those may be counterfeited or made by art and design, as may also books, manuscripts, and inscriptions, as all the learned are now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually practised,
Seite 47 - The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land, — the waters of the heavens reducing all to a level, will at last deliver the whole land over to the sea, and the sea successively prevailing over the land, will leave dry new continents like those we inhabit.
Seite 16 - ... of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed, in the third, having doubled the pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand.
Seite 45 - Among the contemporaries of Hooke and Ray, Woodward, a professor of medicine, had acquired the most extensive information respecting the geological structure of the crust of the earth. He had examined many parts of the British strata with minute attention ; and his systematic collection of specimens, bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, and still preserved there as arranged by him, shows how far he had advanced in ascertaining the order of superposition.
Seite 236 - almost anything is possible as to the present internal state of the earth," and he concludes in these words : " To sum up we can find no published record of any lower maximum age of life on the earth, as calculated by physicists, than 400 millions of years. From the three physical arguments, Lord Kelvin's higher limits are 1,000, 400, and 500 million years.
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Seite 271 - Surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for the gold where they fine it.
Seite 44 - These and other appearances, he said, might have been brought about by earthquakes, " which have turned plains into mountains, and mountains into plains, seas into land, and land into seas, made rivers where there were none before, and swallowed up others that formerly were, &c.
Seite 80 - Geol. Soc. vol. iii. (1840) p. 331. Impetus given by him to Glacial Research 447 These and the subsequent researches and glacial monographs of the great Swiss naturalist started the study of ancient glaciation. At first his conclusions had been regarded as rank heresy by the older and more conservative geologists of the day. Von Buch " could hardly contain his indignation, mingled with contempt, for what seemed to him the view of a youthful and inexperienced observer.
Seite 53 - But never in the history of science did a stranger hallucination arise than that of Cuvier and the modern school, when they supposed themselves to discard theory and build on a foundation of accurately ascertained fact. Never was a system devised in which theory was more rampant; theory, too, unsupported by observation, and, as we now know, utterly erroneous.