 GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 265by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...all—Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...must investigate the effects of her operations in former epochs." As geology professes to treat of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, the student of this branch of knowledge must have a previous acquaintance, in a greater or less degree,... | |
 | 1836 - 900 pages
...the construction and physical history of the globe to which we are bound, investigate the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and enquire into the causes of these transitions, and the influence they have exerted in modifying... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 516 pages
...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1838 - 756 pages
...arrangement of the rocks and strata is omitted, and the science is limited to " the investigation of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and their causes" (see note, p. 4.) The Author believes, that this is what the Germans call a one-sided... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 518 pages
...comprehends the investigation of its structure, and the characters and causes of the various changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It has been emphatically called, by one of our most eminent philosophers, the sister science of Astronomy.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 488 pages
...comprehends the investigation of its structure, and the characters and causes of the various changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It has been emphatically called, by one of our most eminent philosophers, the sister science of Astronomy.... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 560 pages
...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 564 pages
...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...science which, according to the reasoning and investigation of man, gives an account of the " successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature1." It is the history of our planet. As some important event, the occurrence of which we find... | |
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