 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...That the latter opinion should for a long time have prevailed, and that these bodies should have bec-n supposed to be fashioned into their present form by...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. relative level of sea and land, and doubts were then entertained whether this change might be accounted... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 440 pages
...proselytes, when we remember, that its claims to probability arose partly from the very circumstance of its confirming the assumed want of all analogy between...products of fire with the ancient rocks in question. I 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 (bart.) - Geology - 1840 - 486 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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... charged with the requisite mineral ingredients. All are now agreed that it would have been impossible for human ingenuity to invent a theory more distant from the truth; yet we must cease to wonder, on that account, that it gained so many proselytes,... 