 | 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...into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 316 pages
...relations of its different branches with each other. It treats of, says Lyell, "the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external stmcture of our planet." It is the science... | |
 | George Grant - Astronomy - 1849 - 318 pages
...relations of its different branches with each other. It treats of, says Lyell, "the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external strnctare of our planet." It is the science... | |
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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... 
