Author: Georges Cuvier

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9781332706464

Excerpt from Essay on the Theory of the Earth Organic remains so generally and abnud antly distributed throughout the strata of which the crust of the earth is composed. It is not, as some writers now imagine, en tirely a modern study for even so early as the time of Leibnitz, we find that philosof pher drawing and describing fossil bones. After this period it continued to interest individuals, and en gage the particular at tention of societies and academics. The Royal Society of London, by the Memoirs of Sloane, Collinson, Lister, Derham, Baker, Grew, Hunter, Jacobs, Plott, Camper, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.