A Source Book in Geology, 1400-1900 / Kirtley F. Mather, Shirley L. Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mather, Kirtley F., author.

Mason, Shirley L., author.

Series:

Source Books in the History of the Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth sciences--Geology and mineralogy.

Earth sciences.

Geology--History.

Geology.

SCIENCE / General.

SCIENCE / History.

Local Subjects:

Geology--History.

Geology.

SCIENCE / General.

SCIENCE / History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (724 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE

A SOURCE BOOK IN GEOLOGY

Contents

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519): THE EARTH AND THE SEA

AGRICOLA [GEORG BAUER] (1494-1555): THESTRUCTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE FORCES WHICH CHANGE THE EARTH

GEORGE OWEN (1552-1613): THE COURSE OF ROCK SEAMS IN PENBROKSHIRE

RENÉ DESCARTES (1596-1650): RATIONAL BASIS FOR HYPOTHESIS OF CREATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM: THE COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER (1602-1680): THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD

PIERRE PERRAULT (1611-1680): THE SOURCE OF WATER IN SPRINGS AND RIVERS

BERNHARD VARENIUS (1622-1650): THE FIRST PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691): CONDITIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

HOOKE ROBERT HOOKE (1635-1703): EARTHQUAKES

NICOLAUS STENO (1638-1687): OF SOLIDS NATURALLY CONTAINED WITHIN SOLIDS

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNITZ (1646-1716): THE EARTH ORIGINALLY MOLTEN

BENOIT DE MAILLET (1656-1738): STRATA FORMED BENEATH THE SEA

John Woodward (1665-1722) EARTH HISTORY AND THE DELUGE

John Stracbey (1671-1743): OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRATA IN THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL FIELDS

Lewis Evans (c. 1700-1756): THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (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 77 T H E FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDDINGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES] OF THE PARIS BASIN - THE FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDDINGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES] OF THE PARIS BASIN

JOHN MICHELL (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 BAPTISLE LOUIS ROME DE L'ISLE (1736-1790): LAWS OF CRYSTALLIZATION

RUDOLPH ERIC RASPE (1737-1794): COLUMNAR JOINTING IN BASALTIC LAVA

Horace Benedicte de Saussure (1740-1799): ALPINE GEOLOGY

Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811): MOUNTAINS OF VARIOUS AGES

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794): LITTORAL AND PELAGIC BEDS

Abbi René Just Hauy (1743-1822): A BASIS FOR A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY

Jobn Playfair (1748-1819): PROOFS OF THE HUTTONIAN THEORIES

Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817): THE AQUEOUS ORIGIN OF BASALT

Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749-1847): THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS

Guy S. Tancrède de Dolomieu (1750-1801): RHYOLITIC LAVAS - RELATIONS BETWEEN THE AUVERGNE VOLCANICS AND THE GRANITE ON WHICH THEY REST - ON THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN DOLOMITE AND LIMESTONE

Jean Louis Giraud, Abbi Soulavie (1752-1813): METHODS OF DETERMINING THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF ROCKS

Sir James Hall (1761-1832): MARBLE FROM LIMESTONE IN THE LABORATORY - RESULTS OF THE SLOW COOLING OF MELTED ROCK - THE ROLE OF HEAT IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA

William Maclure (1763-1840): OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES

Ernst Friederieb, Baron von Scblottbeim (1764-1832): ON THE USE OF FOSSILS IN GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

WILLIAM NICOL (C. 1768-1851): THE NICOL PRISM - THE PREPARATION OF THIN SECTIONS

Friedrieb Heinrieb Alexander, Baron von Humboldt (1769-1859): VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN MEXICO - EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES IN THE AMERICAS

Léopold Chrétien Frédiric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) REVOLUTIONS AND CATASTROPHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH

Léopold Chrétien Frédiric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) and Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847): STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PARIS BASIN

William Smith (1769-1839): THE STRATA OF ENGLAND

John Macculloch (1773-1835): METAMORPHIC AND IGNEOUS ROCKS OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND

Leopold von Buch (1774-1852): THE IGNEOUS ORIGIN OF BASALT - THE RAISED COASTS OF SWEDEN - THE UPHEAVAL OF VOLCANOES - THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS

Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777-1862): THE CRYSTALLINE NATURE OF VOLCANIC ROCK - THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR

Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius D'Halloy (1783-1875): THE SYSTEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873): THE METAMORPHISM OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS - ON THE CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF THE LOWER PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Louis Constant Prévost (17870-1867): A NEW VOLCANIC ISLAND NOT UPHEAVED

Francis Walker Gilmer (1790-1826): THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA A RESULT OF EROSION

Jean Renk Constant Quoy (1790-1869) and Joseph Paul Gaimard (c. 1790-1858): THE FORMATION OF CORAL ISLANDS

Charles Babbage (1790-1871): THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871): THE SILURIAN SYSTEM - THE PERMIAN SYSTEM

Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864): FOOT MARKS ON NEW RED SANDSTONE IN MASSACHUSETTS - METAMORPHISM OF THE NEWPORT CONGLOMERATE

Bernard Studer (1794-1887): METAMORPHIC MESOZOIC ROCKS DISTINGUISHED FROM PALEOZOIC

Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855) THE DRAFTING OF GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): UNFORMITARIANISM - SUBDIVISIONS OF THE TERTIARY EPOCH

George Poulett Scrope (1797-1876): VOLCANOES - THE ORIGIN OF VALLEYS

Abraham Gesner (1797-1864): THE GEOLOGY OF GRAND MANAN

Ebenezer Emmons (1798-1863): THE TACONIC SYSTEM

Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874): THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF MOUNTAIN BUILDING

Sir William Edmond Logan (1798-1875) and Thomas Sterry Hunt (1826-1892): GEOLOGIC OUTLINE OF CANADA

Sir William Edmond Logan (1798-1875): HURONIAN AND LAURENTIAN DIVISIONS OF THE AZOIC ROCKS - A PRE-CAMBRIAN FOSSIL

Heinrieb Georg Bronn (1800-1862): THE PLAN OF CREATION IN THE SERIES OF GEOLOGICAL AGES

George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882): INFLUENCE OF THE FOREST ON FLOODS

HUGH MILLER (1802-1856): A QUARRY LABORER AS A GEOLOGICAL OBSERVER

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892): THE ARCHEOPTERYX FROM SOLENHOFEN

Daniel Sharpe (1806-1856): THE RELATION BETWEEN DISTORTION AND SLATY CLEAVAGE

Reinhard Bernhardt: AN HYPOTHESIS OF EXTENSIVE GLACIATION IN PREHISTORIC TIME

Louis Jean Agassiz (1807-1873) EVIDENCE OF A GLACIAL EPOCH

WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS (1805-1881): FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC AGE OF CERTAIN ROCKS IN NEW ENGLAND

HENRY DARWIN ROGERS (1809-1866) AND WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS (1805-1881): MOUNTAIN BUILDING FORCES EXEMPLIFIED BY THE APPALACHIAN SYSTEM

HENRY DARWIN ROGERS ( 1809-1866): AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE APPALACHIAN COAL STRATA, BITUMINOUS AND ANTHRACITIC

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882): THE ORIGIN OF CORAL REEFS AND ISLANDS - THE SETTLING OF CRYSTALS IN MOLTEN LAVA - T H E NATURE OF GRANITE CONTACTS - RECENT UPLIFT OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN COAST - THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF LIFE DEVELOPMENT

ROBERT EVEREST (C. 1805-C. 1875): A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF STREAM TRANSPORTATION

ANDREW ATKINSON HUMPHREYS (1810-1883) AND HENRY LARCOM ABBOT (1831-1927): THE AMOUNT OF SEDIMENT CARRIED BY THE MISSISSIPPI

WILLIAM H. SIDELL (1810-1873): ON CERTAIN GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA

THOMAS OLDHAM (1817-1878): STREAM EROSION AND TRANSPORTATION

ALEXANDRE SURELL (1813-1887): TORRENTIAL STREAMS AND THEIR CONTROL

JOSEPH BEETE JUKES (1811-1869): DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTEMPORANEOUS AND INTRUSIVE TRAP

ROBERT WILHELM EBERHARD VON BUNSEN ( 1811-1899): GENETIC RELATIONS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS

Robert Mallet (1810-1881): THE DYNAMICS OF EARTHQUAKES

John Henry Pratt (c.

1811-1871): THE ATTRACTION OF THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS UPON THE PLUMBLINE IN INDIA - THE DEFLECTION OF THE PLUMB-LINE IN INDIA AND THE COMPENSATORY EFFECT OF A DEFICIENCY OF MATTER BELOW THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS - SPECULATION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST

George Bedell Airy (1801-1892): AN HYPOTHESIS OF CRUSTAL BALANCE

JAMES HALL (1811-1898) CORRELATION OF PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF NEW YORK WITH THOSE OF EUROPE - THE RELATION OF MOUNTAINS TO REGIONS OF THICK SEDIMENTARY ACCUMULATION - PHYSICAL CONDITIONS IN PALEOZOIC SEAS

James Dwight Dana ( 1813-1895): ORIGIN OF THE MINERAL CONSTITUTION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS - ON THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES - ON THE NATURE OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

Sir Andrew Crosbie Ramsay (1814-1891): MARINE DENUDATION IN SOUTHERN WALES - ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE OF GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS IN THE PERMIAN EPOCH

Gabriel August Daubrée (1814-1896): EXPERIMENTS ON THE ACTION OF SUPERHEATED WATER IN THE FORMATION OF SILICATES - FRACTURES RESULTING FROM TORSIONAL STRAINS - EXPERIMENTS ON THE FOLDING AND FAULTING OF STRATA

Alpbonse Favre (1815-1890): EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION OF MOUNTAIN STRUCTURES BY LATERAL COMPRESSION

J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903): APPALACHIAN STRUCTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY - PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES OF EASTERN UNITED STATES

John William Dawson (1820-1899): MARINE ALLUVIAL SOILS - CARBONIFEROUS FOSSILS OF THE JOGGINS SECTION

Jobn Strong Newberry ( 1822-1892): CIRCLES OF DEPOSITION IN AMERICAN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Joseph Le Conte (1823-1901): ON THE ORIGIN OF NORMAL FAULTS AND OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE BASIN REGION

SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN ( 1824-1907): ON THE SECULAR COOLING OF THE EARTH

HERMANN STERNBERG (1825-1885): STREAM PROFILES

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY ( 1825-1895): THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE

HENRY CLIFTON SORBY (1826-1908): ON THE ORIGIN OF SLATY CLEAVAGE - ON THE MICROSCOPICAL STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS, INDICATING THE ORIGIN OF MINERALS AND ROCKS - THIN SECTIONS AND THEIR VALUE TO THE GEOLOGIST

FERDINAND ANDRÉ FOUQUÉ (1828-1904 ): AND AUGUSTE MICHEL-LÉVY (1844-1908) THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF FELDSPARS - THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF A CRYSTALLINE IGNEOUS ROCK

WILLIAM HENRY BREWER (1828-1910): THE DEPOSITION OF CLAY IN SALT WATER

CARL OCHSENIUS (1830-1906): THE DEPOSITION OF ROCK SALT

EDUARD SUESS (1831-1914): ON MOUNTAIN STRUCTURES AND THE FORCES WHICH FORM THEM - STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH

THOMAS MELLARD READE (1832-1909): THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLUTION AS A FACTOR IN EROSION

BARON FERDINAND VON RICHTBOFEN (1833-1905): A CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANIC ROCKS - MARINE ABRASION AND TRANSGRESSION

JOHN WESLEY POWELL (1834-1902): A CLASSIFICATION OF STREAMS AND VALLEYS

SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE (1835-1924): ON DENUDATION NOW IN PROGRESS

GASTON DE LA NOË (1836-1902): AND EMMANUEL DE MARGERIE (1862-): CONCERNING THE FASHIONING OF SLOPES

FERENCZ POŠEPNÝ (1836-1895): GROUND WATER AND THE DEPOSITION OF ORE BODIES

Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923): THE RELATION OF SECULAR ROCK-DISINTEGRATION TO LOESS, GLACIAL DRIFT, AND ROCK BASINS

Richard Anthony Proctor (1837-1888): METEORIC SYSTEMS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH

James Geikie (1839-1915): ON CHANGES OF CLIMATE DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH

Nathaniel Soutbgate Shaler (1841-1906): THE CHANGE OF SEA LEVEL - ORIGIN OF FIORDS AND ESTUARIES

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912): THE GREAT DENUDATION - ISOSEISMAL LINES AND EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY - ISOSTASY

Karl August Lossen (1841-1893): THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTACT AND REGIONAL METAMORPHISM

Alexander William Bickerton (1842-1914): COLLISION AND ACCRETION HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN

Charles Lapworth (1842-1920): THE ORDOVICIAN SYSTEM - THE SECRET OF THE HIGHLANDS

Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918): AN ANALYSIS OF SUBAERIAL EROSION - LAND SCULPTURE - LACCOLITHS AND THEIR ORIGIN - HISTORY OF LAKE BONNEVILLE - THE TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF LAKE SHORES

Tbomas Crowder Cbamberlin (1843-1928): THE METHOD OF MULTIPLE WORKING HYPOTHESIS - ON THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE, SURFACE TEMPERATURE, AND AGE OF THE EARTH - THE PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS

Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847-1907): OVERTHRUSTING IN THE ALPS

Archibald Robertson Marvine (1848-1876): PROCESSES OF EROSION IN THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE

Israel Charles White (1848-1927): THE ANTICLINAL THEORY OF GAS ACCUMULATION

ALBERT HEIM (1849-1937): ON ROCK DEFORMATION DURING MOUNTAIN BUILDING

WILLIAM MORRIS DAVIS (1850-1934): THE EROSION CYCLE IN THE LIFE OF A RIVER - PLAINS OF MARINE AND SUBAERIAL DENUDATION

W.J. MCGEE (1853-1912): THE COASTAL PLAIN AND THE FALL LINE

JOSEPH PAXSON IDDINGS (1857-1920): PHENOCRYSTS - RELATION BETWEEN MINERAL COMPOSITION AND MODE OF OCCURRENCE OF IGNEOUS ROCKS

CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE (1857-1918): PRE-CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY - THE MEANING OF ROCK FLOWAGE

GUIDE TO SUBJECT MATTER

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18066-6

OCLC:

1013962825