The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, Containing His Cutlerian Lectures, and Other Discourses, Read at the Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2010-06-16
- Publisher
- Gale ECCO, Print Editions
- Retrieved
- Jun 5, 2012
- ISBN
- NzHDbwAACA
2 memes from this reference
On Reading Chronology in Nature
I do ... humbly conceive (tho' some possibly may think there is too much notice taken of such a trivial thing as a rotten Shell, yet) that Men do generally rally too much slight and pass over without regard these Records of Antiquity which Nature have left as Monuments and Hieroglyphick Characters of preceding…
We Don't Question Human Artifacts
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons or things have, in former Times, had a being, certainly those Petrifactions may be allowed to be of equal Validity and Evidence, that there have been formerly…