“The ridge of the Lammer-muir hills... consists of primary micaceous schistus, and extends from St Abb's head westward... The sea-coast affords a… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Half a century ago Ostwald (1910) distinguished classicists and romanticists among the scientific investigators: the former being inclined to design schemes and… — R.W. van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
