Facts and Observations Towards Forming a New Theory of the EarthA. Constable, 1819 - 335 páginas |
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acting action of heat Alumina appearances arise augite Ballintoy basaltic rocks beds Ben Macdhui Ben Nevis cause chalcedony chalk chemical clay clay-slate colours connected consolidation crystalline crystals described Dr MacCulloch dykes earth Edin exhibit existence explanation extended tracts facts felspar fissures formation fragments Geol Geology globe gneiss grains granite granite veins greenstone grey-wacke horizontal hornblende Hutton Huttonian hypothesis inclination inclosed inferred iron Jameson's Geognosy Klaproth lava layers lime limestone liquid mantle-shaped marks mass mation mechanical deposit metallic mica mica-slate minerals mode mountains nature numerous observed ocean origin particles petrifactions phænomena pitchstone Playfair porphyry position precipitation present primary rocks primary strata proof quantity quartz quartz rock regular remarkable resting sandstone Saussure seen shells shew shewn shistus silex slate slaty solution spheroid spots stalactites strata strata of gneiss stratified rocks structure substance surface syenite theory tion traced Trans traverse unstratified Wern Werner Wernerian
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Página 307 - Pessima enim res est errorum Apotheosis, et pro peste intellectus habenda est, si vanis accedat veneratio. Huic autem vanitati nonnulli ex modernis summa levitate ita indulserunt, ut in primo capitulo Geneseos et in libro Job et aliis scripturis sacris, philosophiam naturalem fundare conati sint ; inter viva quserentes mortua.
Página 126 - From a selection of 37 of the best of the experiments made on the length of the second's pendulum in different latitudes, La Place finds that the increase of gravity, from the equator to the poles, follows the law which theory points out as the most simple ; and hence he conceives, that the density of the layers, of which the mass of the earth consists, must augment regularly from the surface to the centre ; a condition from which he thinks it reasonable to infer the original fluidity of the whole...
Página 304 - ... the latter are, in all cases, the most powerful, and, in respect of the former, are like living in comparison of dead forces. Hence the law of decay is one which suffers no exception : The elements of all bodies were once loose and unconnected, and to the same state nature has appointed that they should all return.
Página 38 - An attempt to establish a pure scientific System of Mineralogy by the application of the Electro-chemical Theory an'd the Chemical Proportions.
Página i - FACTS and OBSERVATIONS towards forming a NEW THEORY of the EARTH. By WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D. Belfast.
Página 307 - Its character is written, and its very physiognomy appears in that dignified and oracular censure which he himself has quoted from the works of Bacon : " Tanto magis haec vanitas inhibenda venit et coercenda. quia ex divinorum et humanorum male-Sana admixtione, non solum educitur philosophia phantastica, sed etiam religio haeretica.
Página 230 - Prsesentiorem et conspicimus Deum Per invias rupes, fera per juga, Clivosque prseruptos, sonantes Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem...
Página 286 - ... motion backward, and forward, on the materials of these layers, will very much assist the accuracy of their level. It is not, however, meant to deny, that the form of the bottom might influence, in a certain degree, the stratification of the substances deposited on it.
Página 267 - He ascertained, 1st, that the outgoings (the upper extremities as they appear at the surface of the earth) of the newer strata are generally lower than the outgoings of the older, from granite downwards to the alluvial depositions, and this, not in particular spots, but around the whole globe.
Página 125 - ... afterwards consolidated into stone ; such a body, in the course of ages, must acquire a surface every where, at right angles to the direction of gravity, and consequently more or less approximating to a spheroid of equilibrium. The natural history of the Earth gives...