The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... idea at the time was the engineer Ignace Venetz . In 1821 Venetz read a paper before the Swiss naturalists in which he supported Perraudin , and sug- gested that the alpine glaciers are the remnants of former much more extensive masses ...
... idea at the time was the engineer Ignace Venetz . In 1821 Venetz read a paper before the Swiss naturalists in which he supported Perraudin , and sug- gested that the alpine glaciers are the remnants of former much more extensive masses ...
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... idea that the myriad kinds of plants and animals now living are lineal descendants of one or a few simple forms which lived long ago is a unifying concept without which modern biology would be much the poorer . So indeed would be the ...
... idea that the myriad kinds of plants and animals now living are lineal descendants of one or a few simple forms which lived long ago is a unifying concept without which modern biology would be much the poorer . So indeed would be the ...
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... idea current in the sev- enteenth century but long since abandoned is the conception of the world as a great ruin in process of final decay . The modern concept holds that while our planet is vastly ancient it is not senile . Endowed ...
... idea current in the sev- enteenth century but long since abandoned is the conception of the world as a great ruin in process of final decay . The modern concept holds that while our planet is vastly ancient it is not senile . Endowed ...
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