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1. The age of the world : Moses to Darwin [1959]

  • Haber, Francis C., author.
  • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2019]
Description
Book — 1 online resource (x, 303 pages).
Summary
  • Introduction
  • Historicism and the scientific revolution
  • Time and world process in 18th-century outlook
  • The biblical age of the earth surrendered
  • The 'Origin of species' and the antiquity of man.
"An extension of [the author's] dissertation, Revolution in the concept of historical time: a study in the relationship between Biblical chronology and the rise of modern science. Johns Hopkins University, 1957."
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2. A postscript to a book published last year entituled Considerations on Dr. Burnet's Theory of the earth [microform] [1694]

Description
Book — 8 p.
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Media & Microtext Center

3. The theory of the earth [microform] : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things [1697]

Description
Book — [13], 223, [9], 188 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
Summary
  • Concerning the deluge, and the dissolution of the earth--Concerning the primaeval earth, and concerning paradise--Concerning the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens and new earth--Concerning the new heavens and new earth, and concerning the consummation of all things--A review of the theory of the earth and its proofs.
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4. Geologia, or, A discourse concerning the earth before the deluge [microform] : wherein the form and properties ascribed to it, in a book intitlued The theory of the earth, are excepted against ... [1690]

Description
Book — [16], 359 p. : ill.
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Online 5. Telluris theoria sacra: orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens ... [1689]

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Description
Book — 2 v. illus., 2 fold. maps (v.1) 22 cm.
Summary
  • v. 1 Libri duo priores De Diluvio & Paradiso. Ed. secunda.--
  • v. 2. Libri duo posteriores De conflagratione mundi, et De futuro rerum statu.
Collection
Stephen J. Gould Rare Books Collection
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6. A vindication of the new theory of the earth from the exceptions of Mr. Keill and others [microform] : with an historical preface of the occasions of the discoveries therein contain'd, and some corrections and additions [1698]

Description
Book — [12], 52 p.
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Online 7. The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things ... [1697]

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Description
Book — 2 v. in 1. illus. (part fold.) port. 30 cm.
Summary
  • [v.1] The two first books Concerning the deluge, and Concerning Paradise. The 3d ed., reviewed by the author.--[v.2] The two last books, Concerning the burning of the world, and Concerning the new heavens and the new earth. A review of the theory of the earth, and of its proofs: especially in reference to Scripture.
Collection
Stephen J. Gould Rare Books Collection
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Online 8. The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things ... [1684 - 1690]

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Description
Book — 2 v. illus., plates, 2 double maps, diagrs. 34 cm.
Summary
  • v. 1. The first two books, Concerning the Deluge, and Concerning Paradise.--
  • v. 2. The two last books, Concerning the burning of the world, and Concerning the new heavens and new earth.
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9. An abstract of a new theory of the formation of the earth [1823]

Description
Book — xv, [13]-211 p. 19cm.
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