The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... GEOLOGY . ARCHIBALD GEIKIE , F.R.S. , Director General of Geological Survey of United Kingdom , GEOMETRY- PURE AND PROJECTIVE . OLAUS HENRICI , Ph.D. , F. R. S. , Professor of Mathematics , University Col- lege , London . 1 ANALYTICAL ...
... GEOLOGY . ARCHIBALD GEIKIE , F.R.S. , Director General of Geological Survey of United Kingdom , GEOMETRY- PURE AND PROJECTIVE . OLAUS HENRICI , Ph.D. , F. R. S. , Professor of Mathematics , University Col- lege , London . 1 ANALYTICAL ...
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... geological treatises . 4. Structural Geology , or the Architecture of the Earth.— We now advance to consider how the various materials composing the crust of the earth have been arranged . We learn that some have been formed in beds or ...
... geological treatises . 4. Structural Geology , or the Architecture of the Earth.— We now advance to consider how the various materials composing the crust of the earth have been arranged . We learn that some have been formed in beds or ...
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... geological evidence , there can be found no trace of a beginning . The oldest rocks which have been discovered on any part of the globe have probably been derived from other rocks older than themselves . Geology by itself has not yet ...
... geological evidence , there can be found no trace of a beginning . The oldest rocks which have been discovered on any part of the globe have probably been derived from other rocks older than themselves . Geology by itself has not yet ...
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... geological interest , seeing that it may yet enable us to carry back the story of our planet far beyond the domain of ordinary geological evidence , and upon data not less reliable than those furnished by the rocks of the earth's ...
... geological interest , seeing that it may yet enable us to carry back the story of our planet far beyond the domain of ordinary geological evidence , and upon data not less reliable than those furnished by the rocks of the earth's ...
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... geological evi- , 3 ° 17 ' ; and of , 8 ° 41 ' . Mr Darwin admits these to dence requires necessarily so important a geographical be superior limits to what is possible , and that , on the sup- change , let us consider how far a ...
... geological evi- , 3 ° 17 ' ; and of , 8 ° 41 ' . Mr Darwin admits these to dence requires necessarily so important a geographical be superior limits to what is possible , and that , on the sup- change , let us consider how far a ...
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