Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Release : 2015-07-20
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Outlines of the Earth's History by : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Download or read book Outlines of the Earth's History written by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. This book was released on 2015-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography The object of this book is to provide the beginner in the study of the earth's history with a general account of those actions which can be readily understood and which will afford him clear understandings as to the nature of the processes which have made this and other celestial spheres. It has been the writer's purpose to select those series of facts which serve to show the continuous operations of energy, so that the reader might be helped to a truer conception of the nature of this sphere than he can obtain from ordinary text-books. In the usual method of presenting the elements of the earth's history the facts are set forth in a manner which leads the student to conceive that history as in a way completed. The natural prepossession to the effect that the visible universe represents something done, rather than something endlessly doing, is thus re-enforced, with the result that one may fail to gain the largest and most educative impression which physical science can afford him in the sense of the swift and unending procession of events. It is well known to all who are acquainted with the history of geology that the static conception of the earth- the idea that its existing condition is the finished product of forces no longer in action-led to prejudices which have long retarded, and indeed still retard, the progress of that science. 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.