The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... regard to that wonderful order and regularity with which Nature has disposed of these singular productions and assigned to each class its peculiar stratum . ( 19 ) In the preface to his Stratigraphical system of organized fossils ( 1817 ) ...
... regard to that wonderful order and regularity with which Nature has disposed of these singular productions and assigned to each class its peculiar stratum . ( 19 ) In the preface to his Stratigraphical system of organized fossils ( 1817 ) ...
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... regard to the dura- tion of past time . The gist of his argument here is that given a series of connected events arranged in chronologic order , the relating of these in an historical format will make sense or not depending on the time ...
... regard to the dura- tion of past time . The gist of his argument here is that given a series of connected events arranged in chronologic order , the relating of these in an historical format will make sense or not depending on the time ...
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... regard to the original source of the sun's heat , Kelvin was uncertain . He preferred the view , attributed to Hermann von Helm- holtz , that our star originally acquired its heat by the collision of smaller masses , but at present is ...
... regard to the original source of the sun's heat , Kelvin was uncertain . He preferred the view , attributed to Hermann von Helm- holtz , that our star originally acquired its heat by the collision of smaller masses , but at present is ...
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