The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... fact that most petrifactions are broken and imperfect ? If these objects " be the apish Tricks of Nature , why does it not imitate several other of its own works ? " Why do we not dig out of mines “ everlasting Vegetables , as Grass for ...
... fact that most petrifactions are broken and imperfect ? If these objects " be the apish Tricks of Nature , why does it not imitate several other of its own works ? " Why do we not dig out of mines “ everlasting Vegetables , as Grass for ...
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... fact . Every step that we take in its pursuit forces us to make almost unlimited drafts upon antiquity . The leading idea which is present in all our researches , and which accompanies every fresh ob- servation , the sound which to the ...
... fact . Every step that we take in its pursuit forces us to make almost unlimited drafts upon antiquity . The leading idea which is present in all our researches , and which accompanies every fresh ob- servation , the sound which to the ...
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... fact supportive of evolutionary theory . Tax- onomists usually cope with this problem , Darwin submits , by nam- ing one or more varieties within a species . But standards of classifica- tion are arbitrary : the varieties of one ...
... fact supportive of evolutionary theory . Tax- onomists usually cope with this problem , Darwin submits , by nam- ing one or more varieties within a species . But standards of classifica- tion are arbitrary : the varieties of one ...
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