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  • Geology and Revelation: The Ancient History of the Earth, Considered in the Geological Facts and Revealed Religion

    AMONG the various pursuits that engage the human mind, there are few so attractive as Geology, none so important as Revelation. Each of these two studies has an interest peculiar to itself. The one is chiefly concerned about the world in which we are living: the other about the world to which we are hastening. Geology leads us down into the depths of the Earth, and there, unfolding to our view a ... Read more

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  • Principles of Geology

    by Charles Lyell ...
    One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Selborne, both volumes (1790)

    by Gilbert White ...
    Natural history of a town in England, first published in 1790. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 26 June 1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist… White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day, and the Hon. Daines ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Selborne

    by Gilbert White ...
    More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a unique manner. This ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

    Oakshot Press

    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Ebook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Ebook contains illustrations and inline footnotes where applicable.Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read.The Books of Charles Darwin.• The Structure And Distribution Of Coral Reefs. (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes)• Geological Observations On Volcanic Islands. ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Selborne (Complete)

    by Gilbert White ...
    See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?— Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature's rude magnificenee. Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste; The unfinish'd farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true; ... Read more

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  • The Antiquity of Man

    by Charles Lyell ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. The Antiquity of Man was published in 1863, and ran into a third edition in the course of that year. The cause of this is not far to seek. Darwin's Origin of Species appeared in 1859, only four years earlier, and rapidly had its effect in drawing attention to the great problem of the origin of living beings. The theories of Darwin and Wallace brought to ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Selborne

    by Gilbert White ...
    'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an ... Read more

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  • Hosts of Living Forms

    Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct and are supplanted.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They ... Read more

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  • Views of Nature – Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation with Scientific Illustrations

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Sublime Wonders of Nature

    In "Views of Nature 'Äì Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation with Scientific Illustrations," Alexander von Humboldt embarks on a profound exploration of the interconnectedness of nature and the sublime experience it ignites within the human spirit. This work blends poetic prose with scientific rigor, illuminating the intricate relationships among geological, botanical, and ... Read more

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  • Collection Of The Age Of Reason Volume 1

    Collection Of The Age Of Reason Volume 1What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the universe? What if there is no absolute truth?In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among them a great English and American heart ... Read more

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  • Collection Of The Age Of Reason Volume 2

    Collection Of The Age Of Reason Volume 2What if God doesn't exist? What if humanity is not the center of the universe? What if there is no absolute truth?In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among them a great English and American heart ... Read more

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