 ... position, to precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of men and animals drowned in a universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species destroyed; all the monuments of...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 4071810Full view - About this book
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 406 pages
...of rotation changed, the waters abandoning their antient position, to precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of men and animals...abandoned the highest mountains, on which it has left incontestible marks of its former abode: we see why the animals and plants of the south may have existed... | |
 | 1812 - 352 pages
...rotation changed ; the waters abandoning their ancient position, to precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of men and animals...abandoned the highest mountains, on which it has left incontestible marks of its former abode. We see why the animals and plants of the south may have existed... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 pages
...of rotation changed, the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator; the greater part of men and animals drowned in a universal deluge," (would not the whole in such case be drowned?) " or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1840 - 412 pages
...rotation changed — the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator — the greater part of men and animals...monuments of human industry reversed — such are the effects which the shock of a comet would produce." " We see then why the Ocean has abandoned the highest... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of man and animals drowned in an universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of art reversed : such are the disasters which the shock of a comet... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...of rotation changed ; the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of men and animals...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
 | François Arago - 1848 - 108 pages
...rush violently toward the new equator ; a great part of the human and animal races drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to the terrestrial globe ; entire species annihilated : all the courses of human industry confounded ; — such would be the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 416 pages
...rotation changed — the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator — the greater part of men and animals...monuments of human industry reversed — such are the effects which the. shock of a comet would produce."—. " We see then why the Ocean has abandoned the... | |
 | 1854 - 616 pages
...ancient position, to precipitate themselves toward the new equator ; the greater part of men and animait drowned in a universal deluge, or destroyed by the...shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species annihilated; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...of rotation changed ; the waters abandoning their ancient position to precipitate themselves towards the new equator ; the greater part of men and animals...shock given to the terrestrial globe ; whole species annihilated ; all the monuments of human industry reversed ; such are the disasters which a shock of... | |
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