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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER ILL HISTORY Of THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY continued. Arabian writers of the tenth century ? Avicenna?Omar?Cosmogony of the Koran?Kazwini?Early Italian writers?Leonardo da Vinci ? Fracastoro ? Controversy as to the real nature of fossils ? Attributed to the Mosaic deluge? Falissy? Steno?Scilla?Quirini?Boyle?Lister ?Leibnitz ?Hooke's Theory of Elevation by Earthquakes?Of lost species of animals?Ray?Physico- theological writers?Woodward's Diluvial Theory?Burnct?Whiston?Vallis- neri ? Lazaro Moro?Generelli ? Bufton ? His theory condemned by the Sorbomie as unorthodox?His declaration?Targioni?Arduino?Michell ? Catcott?Raspe?Fuchsel ? Fortis ?Testa ? Whitehurst ?Pallas? Saussurc. Arabian writers.?After the decline of the Roman empire, the cultivation of physical science was first revived with some success by the Saracens, about the middle of the eighth century of our era. The works of the most eminent classic writers were purchased at great expense from the Christians, and translated into Arabic; and Al Hamun, son of the famous Harun-al-Rashid, the contemporary of Charlemagne, received with marks of distinction, at his court at Bagdad, astronomers and men of learning from different countries. This caliph, and some of his successors, encountered much opposition and jealousy from the doctors of the Mahometan law, who wished the Moslems to confine their studies to the Koran, dreading the effects of the diffusion of a taste for the physical sciences. Avicenna.? Almost all the works of the early Arabian writers are lost. Amongst those of the tenth century, of which fragments are now extant, is a short treatise, On the Formation and Classification of Minerals, by Avicenna, a physician, in whose arrangement there is considerable.merit. The second chapter, On the Cause of ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217976633
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 420
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217976638
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 744 gr


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