 is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external...  The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - 579. oldalszerző: National cyclopaedia - 1879Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes - 1830 - 566 oldal
...other Physical Sciences—- Its distinctness from all—Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes - 1830 - 562 oldal
...other Physical Sciences— Its distinctness from all—Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | 1833 - 742 oldal
...for exemplifying the relations of its different branches with each other. It treats of the "(Lyell) successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 464 oldal
...History — Its relation to other Physical Sciences — Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a... | |
 | 1834 - 530 oldal
...footing with its sister sciences: but its superiority to them rests upon other grounds. Since it " investigates the successive changes that have taken...place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence which they have exerted, in modifying... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 oldal
...History — Its relation to other Physical Sciences — Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 476 oldal
...History — Its relation to other Physical Sciences — Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 oldal
...to History—Its relation to other Physical Sciences— Not to be confounded with Cosmogony. GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes...the surface and external structure of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a... | |
 | 1837 - 516 oldal
...be, in its most extended sense, the ancient natural history of the earth, and of the changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature. It teaches us the materials of which the earth, to a certain depth, is composed, and the order in which... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - 1838 - 756 oldal
...given by Mr. Lyell, appears to limit the science to the investigation of past changes. — " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes...into the causes of these changes, and the influence tliey have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet." — Principles of... | |
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