Douglas broughton

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NEW SYSTEM OF GEOLOGY,

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IN WHICH

THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS

OF THE

EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE,

ARE RECONCILED AT ONCE

TO MODERN SCIENCE AND SACRED HISTORY.

BY ANDREW URE, M.D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY,

MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON,

&c. &c. &c.

PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND LECTURER ON CHEMISTRY

IN THE

ANDERSONIAN UNIVERSITY.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN.

M.DCCC. XXIX.

GLASGOW:

Printed by Edward Khull & Son, 8, East Clyde Street.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE,

INTRODUCTION,

Cosmogony of the Greeks-Idolatry of the learned,

Bacon on intercourse of Science and Revelation,

Historical character of Moses,

Illogical procedure of geological theorists,

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Geology of Hutton and Werner alike ideal,

Sun not the molten parent of the planets,

Author's motives for writing the present work,

Sound and unsound philosophy exemplified,

New era of practical geology,

Arrangement and importance of organic remains,

BOOK I.

THE PRIMORDIAL WORLD, OR CREATION.

CHAP. I.-General Observations on the Forms of Matter,

Nature of heat-its undulatory propagation, .

Original solidity of the globe,

Pre-existing chaos-inadmissible-Origin of that notion,

Light existed before the sun and is independent of his beams,

Vibratory diffusion of light by advancing and receding pulses,

How double light from the sun may cause darkness,

Arago's fine confirmatory experiments, .

CHAP. III.-The Atmosphere, .

Constitution of a dry atmosphere and of one mixed with

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