Essay on the Theory of the Earth

by baron Georges Cuvier

[19] Leibnitz, Protogæa. Act. Lips. 1683; Gott. 1749.

[20] Telliamed. Amsterd. 1748.

[21] Theorie de la Terre, 1749; and Epoques de la Nature, 1775.

[22] See La Physique de Rodig. p. 106, Leipsic, 1801; and Telliamed, vol. ii. p. 169, as well as a multitude of new German works. M. de Lamarck has of late years developed this system to a great extent, in France, and supported it with much ingenuity, in his Hydrogeologie and Philosophie Zoologique.

[23] M. Patrin has shewn much ingenuity in supporting these fantastical ideas, in several articles of the Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle.

[24] This application of pantheism to geology may be best seen in the works of Oken and Steffens.

[25] Delamétherie, in his “Géologie,” admits crystallization as the principal agent.

[26] Hutton and Playfair.—Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. Edin. 1802.

[27] Lamanon,—in various parts of the Journal de Physique,—after Michaelis, and several others.

[28] Dolomieu, in the Journal de Physique.