Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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Página xii
... Professor Sedgwick's Preface , etc. Dr. Hitchcock . xxxiii xlvii lix THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . xii CONTENTS ,
... Professor Sedgwick's Preface , etc. Dr. Hitchcock . xxxiii xlvii lix THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . xii CONTENTS ,
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... Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the descending limit of organic life . " " Below them are other beds of great thickness , not metamorphic , and fit for receiving impressions of ...
... Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the descending limit of organic life . " " Below them are other beds of great thickness , not metamorphic , and fit for receiving impressions of ...
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... Professor Sedgwick places below the lowest of the Silurian rocks certain thick beds in Wales , of which one series are called the Lingula Flags , from their containing that fossil . When the reader has acquainted himself with the order ...
... Professor Sedgwick places below the lowest of the Silurian rocks certain thick beds in Wales , of which one series are called the Lingula Flags , from their containing that fossil . When the reader has acquainted himself with the order ...
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... Professor Agassiz ( perhaps the most philosophical of living zoologists ) is to be trusted . The development ... Sedgwick : Preface to the 5th ed . of Discourse on the Studies at Cambridge . Sedgwick against Agassiz ! are investigated by ...
... Professor Agassiz ( perhaps the most philosophical of living zoologists ) is to be trusted . The development ... Sedgwick : Preface to the 5th ed . of Discourse on the Studies at Cambridge . Sedgwick against Agassiz ! are investigated by ...
Página xxxvi
... Professor Sedgwick in 1845 ; he was sure of his fact , for he had " seen " the fossils . * They were in such ... Professor Sedgwick . " At the same time , it was stated that Professor Phillips had found remains of a fish in the Wenlock ...
... Professor Sedgwick in 1845 ; he was sure of his fact , for he had " seen " the fossils . * They were in such ... Professor Sedgwick . " At the same time , it was stated that Professor Phillips had found remains of a fish in the Wenlock ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Página lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Página 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...