Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison: Based on His Journals and Letters : with Notices of His Scientific Contemporaries and a Sketch of the Rise and Growth of Palaeozoic Geology in Britain, Band 1J. Murray, 1875 |
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Seite 76 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Seite 120 - for the purpose of making geologists acquainted with each other, of stimulating their zeal, of inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, of facilitating the communication of new facts, and of ascertaining what is known in their science, and what yet remains to be discovered.
Seite 362 - Dear Murchison, — Many thanks for your kind recollections of me in sending me your pamphlet, which I shall read with all attention and care. My observation has been necessarily so much fixed on missions of another description, that I am hardly reconciled to zealots going out with voltaic batteries and crucibles, for the conversion of mankind, and baptizing their fellow-creatures with the mineral acids; but I will endeavour to admire, and believe in you. My real alarm for you is, that by some late...
Seite 362 - ... crucibles, for the conversion of mankind, and baptizing their fellow-creatures with the mineral acids; but I will endeavour to admire, and believe in you. My real alarm for you is, that by some late decisions of the magistrates, you come under the legal definition of strollers; and nothing would give me more pain than to see any of the Sections upon the mill, calculating the resistance of the air, and showing the additional quantity of flour which might be ground in vacua, — each man in the...
Seite 202 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Seite 234 - The following quotation is from a letter of Sir Roderick Murchison's, at the time of the meeting of the British Association at Bristol : ' At that meeting the fun of one of the evenings was a lecture of Buckland's. In that part of his discourse which treated of ichnolites, or fossil footprints, the Doctor exhibited himself as a cock or a hen on the edge of a muddy pond, making impressions by lifting one leg after another. Many of the grave people thought our science was altered to buffoonery by an...
Seite 100 - ... is held by another section termed by Professor Huxley the catastrophic Werner, on the other hand, treating the rocks as mere masses of minerals, taught that the earth " had been originally covered by the ocean, in which the materials of the minerals were dissolved, but of this ocean he imagined that the various rocks were precipitated in the same order in which he found those of Saxony to lie ; hence on the retirement of the ocean, certain universal formations spread over the surface of the globe,...
Seite 362 - ... each man in the meantime imagining himself a Galileo. " Mrs. Sydney has eight distinct illnesses, and I have nine. We take something every hour, and pass the mixture from one to the other. " About forty years ago, I stopped an infant in Lord Breadalbane's grounds, and patted his face. The nurse said, ' Hold up your head, Lord Glenorchy.
Seite 107 - superficial reasoning men who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible.
Seite 94 - In the summer following the hunting season of 1822-3, when revisiting my old friend Morritt of Rokeby, I fell in with Sir Humphry Davy, and experienced much gratification in his lively illustrations of great physical truths. As we shot partridges together in the morning, I perceived that a man might pursue philosophy without abandoning field-sports ; and Davy, seeing that I had already made observations on the Alps and Apennines, independently of my antiquarian rambles, encouraged me to come to London...