GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE AUTHOR'S PREFACE Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) THE EARTH AND THE SEA Agricola [Georg Bauer] (1494–1555) THE STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE FORCES WHICH CHANGE THE EARTH George Owen (1552–1613) THE COURSE OF ROCK SEAMS IN PENBROKSHIRE Ren? Descartes (1596–1650) RATIONAL BASIS FOR HYPOTHESIS OF CREATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM THE COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH Atbanasius Kircber (1602-1680) THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD Pierre Perrault (1611–1680) THE SOURCE OF WATER IN SPRINGS AND RIVERS Bernbard Varenius (1622–1650) THE FIRST PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Robert Boyle (1627–1691) CONDITIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Robert Hooke (1635–1703) EARTHQUAKES Nicolaus Steno (1638–1687) OF SOLIDS NATURALLY CONTAINED WITHIN SOLIDS Gottfried Wilbelm Leibnitz (1646–1716) THE EARTH ORIGINALLY MOLTEN Benoit de Maillet (1656–1738) STBATA FORMED BENEATH THE SEA Jobn Woodward (1665–1722) EARTH HISTORY AND THE DELUGE Jobn Strachey (1671-1743) OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRATA IN THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL FIELDS Lewis Evans (c. 1700–1756) THE PIIYSIOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA 55 Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Bufon (1707–1788) THE COLLISION HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN EPOCHS OF THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1712-1784) VALLEYS FORMED BY STREAM EROSION Giovanni Arduino (1713-1795) ORIGIN OF MARBLE AND DOLOMITE Jeanne Etienne Guettard (1715–1786) MAP SHOWING THE ROCKS THAT TRAVERSE FRANCE AND ENGLAND THE FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDD?NGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES OF THE PARIS BASIN Jobn Micbell (1724-1793) THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES THE EARTH COMPOSED OF REGULAR AND UNIFORM STRATA Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) A NATURALISTIC HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN
Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1805) THE VOLCANIC ORIGIN OF BASALT AGE DETERMINATION IN A VOLCANIC REGION James Hutton (1726-1797) THEORY OF THE EARTH Lazarro Spallanzani (1729-1799) ON BASALTIFORM LAVAS AND THE ROLE OF GASES IN VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH Jean Baptiste Louis Rome de l'Isle (1736-1790) LAWS OF CRYSTALLIZATION Rudolpb Eric Raspe (1737–1794) COLUMNAR JOINTING IN BASALTIC LAVA ……
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