The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: a Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology, 2 Volumes - Hardcover
- PublisherSampson Low, Marston & Company
- Publication date1893
- ISBN 10 1135509328
- ISBN 13 9781135509323
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology
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Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London
(1893)
ISBN 10: 1135509328
ISBN 13: 9781135509323
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. A few 1/4" puncture marks and a 1" long abrasion to cloth near upper corner of front board on Volume Two. Otherwise a near fine set. Boards clean and bright. Very little foxing to pages. ; Two volumes (complete). Volume One: xxvii, [1], 376 pages. Volume Two: xi, [1], (377)-920 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on spines and front boards. Page dimensions: 220 x 141mm. "It is a singular and a notable fact, that while most other branches of science have emancipated themselves from the trammels of metaphysical reasoning, the science of geology still remains imprisoned in 'a priori' theories. It was many years ago that one of the teachers to whom I am under great obligations, Adam Sedgewick, protested with the gravity of a true philosopher against this method of reasoning. 'The study of the great physical mutations on the surface of the earth,' he said, 'is the business of geology. But who can define the limits of these mutations? They have been drawn by the hand of Nature, and may be studied in the record of her works, but they never have been, and never will be, fixed by any guesses of our own, or by any trains of a priori reasoning based on hypothetical analysis." - from the Preface. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 12803
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