Principles of Geology

Principles of Geology

Author: Charles Lyell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-03

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 3382167085

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.


Discovering Gilgamesh

Discovering Gilgamesh

Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1526102382

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In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian ‘slush pile’, George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah’s Flood. His research suggested this ‘Deluge Tablet’ pre-dated the writing of Genesis by a millennium or more. Smith went on to translate what later became The Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the oldest and most complete work of literature from any culture. Against the backdrop of innovative readings of a range of paintings, novels, histories and photographs (by figures like Dickens, Eliot, James, Dyce, Turner, Macaulay and Carlyle), this book demonstrates the Gordian complexity of the Victorians’ relationship with history, while also seeking to highlight the Epic’s role in influencing models of time in late-Victorian geology. Discovering Gilgamesh will be of interest to readers, students and researchers in literary studies, Victorian studies, history, intellectual history, art history and archaeology.


Thinking about the Earth

Thinking about the Earth

Author: David Roger Oldroyd

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780674883826

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Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.


Symposium on Creation (JCR Vol. 1, No. 1)

Symposium on Creation (JCR Vol. 1, No. 1)

Author: R. J. Rushdoony

Publisher: Chalcedon Foundation

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Specifics concerning creation are officially relegated into the realm of things indifferent to salvation or the life of the church. Various perspectives serve as popular alternatives to the six-day creation within circles that still concern themselves with the question of biblical inerrancy.