ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GEOGNOSY
From French géognosie, from geo- + Greek gnōsis a seeking to know, knowledge.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEOGNOSY»
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geognosy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
geognosy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Gold Deposits in Australia: Their Discovery, Development ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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A Geological Primer in Verse:: With A Poetical
Geognosy, Or, ...
With A Poetical Geognosy, Or, Feasting and Fighting; and Sundry Right Pleasant
Poems; with Notes. To which is Added a Critical Dissertation on "King Coal's
Levee," Addressed to the Professors and Students of the University of Oxford.
3
Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of ...
GEOGNOSY AS A STRUCTURAL SCIENCE The mining context A third science
of the earth, also flourishing in Saussure's time, was closely related to physical
geography, but it treated the third dimension not as a marginal feature but as the
...
Martin J. S. Rudwick, 2007
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Geognosy: Or, the Facts and Principles of Geology Against ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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Lords of Creation: American Scriptural Geology and the Lord ...
This, then, explains the title of his book, Geognosy rather than Geology. Lord
basically adopted the Wernerian nomenclature characterizing the first as
observational and factually based – dealing with the classification and spatial
relationships ...
Richard Perry Tison (II.), 2008
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The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the ...
[Geognosy.] From two Greek words, one of which signifies the earth; the other,
knowledge or understanding. By this name is designated what we have as yet
been able to learn, concerning the manner in which the' matters composing the ...
Dolomieu might have taught him, if he had possessed sense enough to listen,
that obsidian and pumice were not formed by water ; nor volcanoes ignited by
coal ; in his rown day, he might have learnt something of real geognosy from
others ...
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The Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts
Positive geognosy bas been enriched by all the discoveries that have been made
on the mineral constitution of the globe, and furnishes valuable materials to
another science, im properly called the theory of the earth, which comprehends
the ...
John White Webster, John Ware, 1826
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Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the ...
of geognosy aimed to give accurate descriptions of the three-dimensional
structure of rock masses of all kinds, independently of any theoretical conjectures
about their causal origin or place in geohistory (BLT §2.3). For the Primary rocks
such ...
Martin J. S. Rudwick, 2010
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Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society
Notes on the Geognosy of the Crif-Fell, Kirkbean, and the Needle's Eye, in
Galloway. By Professor Jameson. {Read \Qth April 1814.) JL HE road from the
town of Dumfries to New Abbey leads through a country composed of transition
rocks, ...
Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, 1823
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GEOGNOSY»
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geognosy is used in the context of the following news items.
Competitors gather for Canspell national spelling bee
In 2010, MacDonald got to seventh place before he slipped on “geognosy.” The next year he climbed to fifth place before an incorrect recitation ... «National Post, Mar 12»
No 'logomachy' over these words
Tripped by geognosy, she finished in sixth place. Vivian Nereim: vnereim@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1413. Sign up for free newsletters and ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Mar 10»
