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" Essays to-, wards a Natural History of the Earth, and terrestrial bodies. Though he possessed much more knowledge of minerals than his predecessor, and on this account had greatly the advantage of him, he produced a work far less ingenious and interesting.... "
System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry ... - Page 17
by Friedrich Christian Accum - 1808
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part First; in Two ..., Volume 1

Samuel Miller - 1803 - 582 pages
...irregularity.* This " elegant romance" of BITRNET was succeeded by the work of his countryman, Mr, A^OODWARD, who, in 1695, published Essays towards a Natural History...took place at the flood; that on the gradual retiring ot a SULUVAN'S fiau of Nature, Tol. i. letter 6 r the wafers the various substances held in solution,...
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part First; in Two ..., Volume 1

Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pages
...was succeeded by the work of his countryman, Mr. WOODWARD, who, in 1695, published Essays to-, wards a Natural History of the Earth, and terrestrial bodies....place at the flood; that on the gradual retiring of a SULLIVAN'S Vsno of ffature, vol. i. letter 0, the waters the various substances held in solution,...
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Miller - 1805 - 518 pages
...predecessor, and on this account had greatly the advantage of him, he produced a work far less ingeiiious and interesting. He also proceeded on the supposition...the coats of an onion. As this theory was soon found to contradict some of the plainest and most unquestionable facts which geologists observed, it has...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, that it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed were, once, in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of...
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A History of the earth and animated nature v.2, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of...
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A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of...
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A history of the earth and animated nature with numerous notes ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...top, and the heaviest next the centre, he consequently asserts, and it will not improbably follow, that all the substances of which the earth is composed, were once in an actual state of dissolution. This universal dissolution he takes to have happened at the time of...
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The Philosophical Magazine and Journal: Comprehending Various ..., Volume 47

1816 - 504 pages
...the geological phenomena, shall only insert such observations as may be necessary for my purpose. 1. All the substances of which the earth is composed were once in a state of atomic division. The waters of the ocean universally covered for a long period the whole mass, and...
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