10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DILUVIALIST»
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One great cause of the difference of opinion between the dilu- vialists and the
glacialists, is the exclusiveness with which each party would insist upon the
agency of the cause which they respectively adopt : the diluvialist apparently errs
in ...
2
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
One great cause of the difference of opinion between the diluvialists and the
glacialists, is the exclusiveness with which each party would insist upon the
agency of the cause which they respectively adopt: the diluvialist apparently errs
in ...
3
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
He first offers some introductory remarks on the opposite theories of the fluvialist
and diluvialist, the former ascribing such denudations exclusively to the operation
of the streams actually existing, or rather to the drainage of the atmospherical ...
4
The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
One great cause of the difference of opinion between the diluvialists and the
glacialists, is the exclusiveness with which each party would insist upon the
agency of the cause which they respectively adopt: the diluvialist apparently errs
in ...
David Brewster, Richard Phillips, Richard Taylor,
1842
5
Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart
Buckland was so amazingly annoyed at my having had such an anti-diluvialist
paper read, that he got Conybeare to write a controversial essay on the Valley of
the Thames, in which he drew a comparison between the theory of the Fluvialists,
...
Sir Charles Lyell, Mrs. Lyell (Katharine M.),
1881
6
Time Matters: Geology's Legacy to Scientific Thought
Another famous Diluvialist was Adam Sedgwick (Chapter 3), who in 1831
abandoned the idea and suggested that many geologists had been too hasty in
assigning the deposition of all superficial materials to 114 Uniformitarianism
versus ...
7
Evolution: The History of an Idea
If the diluvialist explanation of the caves was accepted, was it valid to claim that
the catastrophe had really been worldwide? Cuvier himself had argued against
this, and it soon became apparent to others that on this question Buckland had ...
Jerome Cardan (1501-1576) is generally treated as a diluvialist, principally due
to Palissy's remarks (see La Rocque, ibid., pp. 155 ff.). Pierre Duhem has
questioned Cardan's intention to attribute the origin of fossils to the Biblical
Deluge, and ...
Johann Bartholomäus Adam Beringer, Melvin E. Jahn, Daniel J. Woolf
9
Genesis and Geology: A Study in the Relations of Scientific ...
Two incipient schools, "Fluvialist" and "Diluvialist," had developed and had
prepared the positions which uniformitarian and catastrophist would occupy once
Lyell made the disagreement explicit and fundamental. For the fluvialist papers
and ...
Charles Coulston Gillispie,
1951
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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the ...
In this article, Lyell—the style is his—made a strong case for a “fluvialist”
interpretation of valley erosion, on the basis of all they had seen in the Massif
Central, and hence reinforced the case for rejecting Buckland's “diluvialist”
alternative ...
Martin J. S. Rudwick,
2010
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DILUVIALIST»
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Calvary Chapel and the Republicans
Another example: I went to a lecture by the young-earth creationist and diluvialist Henry Morris sponsored by an evangelical congregation. «Maui News, Sep 12»