Outline of the geology of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham / By Roderick Impey Murchison.

  • Murchison, Roderick Impey, Sir, 1792-1871.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Outline of the geology of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham / By Roderick Impey Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF CHELTENHAM. The important uses of Geology, in explaining the true arrangement of the strata which constitute the mineral crust of the earth, are now generally acknowledged, and the subject is consequently becoming every day more popular. Rocks are to the Geologist what Papyri are to the Antiquary, imparting to every one who diligently lays them open, the history of the ages that have preceded us. But, although Herschel has declared Geology a to have “ been brought effectually within the list of the inductive sciences,” it has, at the same time, been doomed to undergo a perse¬ cution not unlike in spirit to that which was formerly inflicted upon Galileo and the early 8 Prelim. Disc, on Natural Philosophy, p. 283. Lond. 1830. A 2