| Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 584
...historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once...inadequate idea of the duration of each formation, or even of each stratum. We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work, and learning... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - Страниц: 621
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science,...past periods of time, may at once close this volume" I shall next read a short statement from Page's Advanced Students' Text-Book of Geology, published... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1911 - Страниц: 628
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science,...vast have been the past periods of time, may at once dose this volume." I shall next read a short statement from Page's Advanced Students' Text-Book of... | |
| Sir Joseph Larmor - Страниц: 632
...period." Here is another still more important sentence, which I read to you from the same book : — " He who can read Sir Charles Lyell's grand work on...past periods of time, may at once close this volume." I shall next read a short statement from Page's Advanced Students' Text-Book of Geology, published... | |
| 1921 - Страниц: 560
...historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science, and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once...inadequate idea of the duration of each formation, or even of each stratum. We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work, and learning... | |
| Edinburgh Geological Society - 1893 - Страниц: 404
...lapse of time. —Hz remarks that whoever can read Lyell's "Principles of Geology" and not realise how incomprehensibly vast have been the past periods of time may at once close his volume upon the " Origin of Species." He advises the student to examine great piles of superimposed... | |
| Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - Страниц: 596
...historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science, and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume." As another suecessor once said of Lyell's influence, "We find the data, and Lyell teaches us to comprehend... | |
| 1899 - Страниц: 606
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science,...periods of time, may at once close this volume.” I shall next read a short statemnent fromn Page's ‘Advanced Students' Text-Book of Geology,' published... | |
| Stephen Jay Gould - 1985 - Страниц: 484
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology, and yet does not admit how incomprehensively vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume." Here Darwin commits a fallacy of reasoning — the confusion of gradualism with natural selection —... | |
| David Amigoni - 1995 - Страниц: 228
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology . . . yet does not admit how incomprehensively vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume'." Of course, Darwin's view is not cyclic but linear: it envisages a unique series of events each of which... | |
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