Dolomieu, in thinking that if anything in Geology be established it is that the surface of our globe has undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be referred to a much earlier period than five or six thousand years ago... Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Page 233by Georges baron Cuvier - 1827 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 532 pages
...Dolomieu in thinking," we find him saying, in his widely famed "Theory of the Earth," "that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface...earlier period than five or six thousand years ago." But from the same celebrated work we learn that Cuvier held that this sudden catastrophe, — occasioned,... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 524 pages
...Dolomieu in thinking," we find him saying, in his widely famed " Theory of the Earth," " that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface...earlier period than five or six thousand years ago." But from the same celebrated work we learn that Cuvier held that this sudden catastrophe, — occasioned,... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 pages
...Theory of the Earth," " that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface of onr globe has undergone a great and sudden revolution,...earlier period than five or six thousand years ago." But from the same celebrated work we learn that Cuvier held that this sudden catastrophe, — occasioned,... | |
| Edward William Lane, Reginald Stuart Poole - 1860 - 350 pages
...Dolomieu in thinking,' we find him saying, in his widely-famed Theory of the Earth, ' that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface...earlier period than five or six thousand years ago.' But from the same celebrated work we learn that Cuvier held that this sudden catastrophe — occasioned,... | |
| Jonathan BIRD - 1863 - 384 pages
...agree," said Cuvier in an oft-quoted passage, " with MM. Deluc and Dolomieu in thinking that, if anything in geology be established, it is that the surface...earlier period than five or six thousand years ago." Cuvier was far from imputing to this flood the existence of the fossil shells, and other relics of... | |
| Hugh Sherrard - 1863 - 102 pages
...of some such event as the deluge was held by that great naturalist, Cuvier, who said, " If anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface...earlier period, than five or six thousand years ago." But this opinion is now abandoned by all geologists. The peculiar appearances of the ' drift ' formation... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 530 pages
...Dolomieu in thinking," we find him saying, in his widely famed " Theory of the Earth," " that if anything in geology be established, it is, that the surface of our globe h;is undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be referred to a much earlier... | |
| William Pengelly - 1868 - 396 pages
...with Cuvier and Buckland, who themselves follow MM De Luc and Dolomieu, in thinking that if anything in Geology be established it is that the surface of...inhabited by man and the species of animals now best known t — That it is since the occurrence of this revolution that the small number of individuals dispersed... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art - 1869 - 558 pages
...with Cuvier and Buckland, who themselves follow MM De Luc and Dolomieu, in thinking that if anything in Geology be established it is that the surface of...inhabited by man and the species of animals now best known t — That it is since the occurrence of this revolution that the small number of individuals dispersed... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1869 - 628 pages
...surface.' He then shows that all these processes go on rapidly, and concludes : — - that if anything in geology be established, it is that the surface...undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which t ' < 1 1 1 1 , . t be referred to a much earlier period than five or sdi thousand years ago ; that... | |
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