10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEOGONY»
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geogony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the
science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the
causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them. See Traiti
Etementairc de ...
Edward Hitchcock, John Pye Smith, 1841
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
It is in reality the common, but deplorable propensity of all geological Writers, to
deduce and assume some theoretical hypothesis, as soon as they have
observed or collected a few facts, changing thereby gealogy-into geogony, Which
are two ...
H Biglow, Orville Luther Holley, 1818
3
Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole
First, geogony gives us an almost irresistible antecedent probability. For if the
earth from its earliest consolidation has been steadily cooling, it is hardly
possible to conceive of a method by which any region once too hot for human
residence ...
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The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
It is in reality the common, bat deplorable propensity of all geological writers, to
deduce and assume some theoretical hypothesis, as soon as they have
observed or collected a few facts, changing thereby gealogy into geogony, which
are two ...
5
A comparative estimate of the mineral and Mosaical ...
Yet, the time is not very " remote, (he adds,) when geologists were occupied from
" choice in the solution of these problems, and with this " fabulous period of the
physical history of the earth V — " The new doctrine of geogony , (he says,) has a
...
6
Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: Up to 1700
... one Newtonian stone.62 Burnet's evidence for his antediluvian water cycle in
the prolate spheroid of the paradisiacal globe depended not only upon his
appropriation of Cartesian geogony but upon his integrated reading of all three
texts.
Jitse Michiel van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote, 2008
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Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early ...
In the Cartesian theory of the earth, volcanoes vented the heat of an original
geogony. Earth was a cooled, lumped-together, and layered former star that had
originally swirled in the vortex of a primordial solar system. Its molten core was a
...
8
The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality
See geogony Gerlach, Walther, 181 Germer, Lester H., 167 Gibbs, Josiah Willard
, 52, 153 Gleick, James, 62 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 202 gravitational
constant, 81 gravitational force, 80 gravitational radiation, 91 gravitational waves,
...
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A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks in Both ...
We are the more particular in these remarks, because the new doctrine of
geogony has a tendency to lean towards the idea of the liquefied masses
ascending across the fissures, from below upwards, while the ancient geogony
explained ...
Alexander von Humboldt, 1823
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Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation
Hence, however the first human being should choose, creation could not miss its
destiny. In Genesis cosmogony immediately passes over into geogony and
geogony into anthropogony. The world, the earth, humanity are one organic
whole.
Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, 2004
