An elementary treatise on geology: determining fundamental points in that science, and containing an examination of some modern geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian theory of the earth / By J.A. De Luc, F.R.S. Translated from the French manuscript, by the Rev. Henry De la Fite.

  • Luc, J. A. de (Jean André), 1727-1817.
Date:
1809
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Credit: An elementary treatise on geology: determining fundamental points in that science, and containing an examination of some modern geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian theory of the earth / By J.A. De Luc, F.R.S. Translated from the French manuscript, by the Rev. Henry De la Fite. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “servations subsequent to that event. On this “subject, Dr. Hales may see, in a review of Mr. ‘ Paix. Howarn’s work, The Scriptural History of the Earth, &c. (British Critic, August 1797, ‘py. 108,) that these small clianges are adduced as “ accounting for the remarkable. circumstance of the “ antediluvian year consisting only of 360 days. “ This circumstance served as the foundation of the | “ancient astronomical formule, transinitted by * Noah to the Asiatic nations; formule which, “ however accurate with regard to the antediluvian — “ state of the earth, had subsequently required cor- “ rections, on account of a greater number of days “in the year, i. e. of revolutions of the earth on its ‘axis, while describing the same orbit.”