Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).
Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Theory of the Earth; Or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. Soc. of Edinb.)
Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461175134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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Theory of the Earth, Or, An Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe
Author: James HuttonTheory of the Earth ; Or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe
Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Physical Society of EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
Author: The Theory of the Earth, Or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land Upon the Globe
Author: James HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Language and Earth
Author: Bernd NaumannPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277249
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
In former times, the study of language was rarely pursued in isolation, and many of the other intellectual concerns that used to be intertwined with language study have long been on the record of historians of linguistics. The present volume is the first to probe into an association of linguistics that has so far been neglected: that with the study of the earth. The relations between linguistics and geology were intimate and manifold as both sciences were emerging in the 18th and 19th century. Highlighted in the contributions to this volume are biographical and institutional contacts, the joint interest in origins and very early developments and in the proper methods of acquiring knowledge about these, common structural and evolutionary concepts, and analogous problems in the classification of domains as fuzzy as languages and rocks.
A Natural History of Time
Author: Pascal RichetPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226712893
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Richet begins his story with mythological traditions, which were heavily influenced by the seasons and almost uniformly viewed time cyclically. The linear history promulgated by Judaism, with its story of creation, was an exception, and it was that tradition that drove early Christian attempts to date the Earth. For instance, in 169 CE, the bishop of Antioch, for instance declared that the world had been in existence for “5,698 years and the odd months and days.” Until the mid-eighteenth century, such natural timescales derived from biblical chronologies prevailed, but, Richet demonstrates, with the Scientific Revolution geological and astronomical evidence for much longer timescales began to accumulate. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years—a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had demonstrated that the solar system is four and a half billion years old, and the universe itself about twice that, though controversial questions remain. The quest for time is a story of ingenuity and determination, and like a geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels back the strata of that history, giving us a chance to marvel at each layer and truly appreciate how far our knowledge—and our planet—have come.
The Geology of the Neighborhood of Edinburgh
Author: Geological Survey of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description