 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...That the latter opinion should for a long time have prevailed, and that these bodies should have been supposed to be fashioned into their present form by...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. We shall conclude with one more example. When the organic origin of fossil shells had been conceded,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 582 pages
...claims to probability arose partly from the very circumstance of its confirming the assumed want of analogy between geological causes and those now in...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. I shall adduce one more example. When the organic origin of fossil shells had been conceded, their... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...claims to probability arose partly from the very circumstance of its confirming the assumed want of analogy between geological causes and those now in action. By what train of investigations were geologists induced at length to reject these views, and to assent to the igneous... | |
 | Geology - 1910 - 452 pages
...result of a slow and gradual change in the organic world. stance of its confirming the assumed want of analogy between geological causes and those now in action. By what train of investigations were geologists induced at length to reject these views, and to assent to the igneous... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...in explaining the motions of the moon. bility arose partly from its confirming the assumed want o£ all analogy between geological causes and those now...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. Of late years the points of discussion in geology have been transferred to new questions, and those,... | |
 | Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 604 pages
...That the latter opinion should for a long time have prevailed, and that these bodies should have been supposed to be fashioned into their present form by...to assent to the igneous origin of these formations 1 By an examination of the structure of active volcanos, the mineral composition of their lavas and... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - Science - 2003 - 312 pages
...That the latter opinion should for a long time have prevailed, and that these bodies should have been supposed to be fashioned into their present form by...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. We shall conclude with one more example. When the organic origin of fossil shells had been conceded,... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - Science - 2003 - 312 pages
...that account, that it gained so many proselytes, when we remember that its claims to proba. bility arose partly from its confirming the assumed want...now in action. By what train of investigation were ail theorists brought round at length to an opposite opinion, and induced to assent to the igneous... | |
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... conjecture as could be expected from those who did not appeal, in the first instance, to the analogy of the living creation, as affording the only source of authentic information. It was only by an accurate examination of living testacea, and by a... 