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• 1.万物简史 第89期:敲石头的人们(14)
• Meanwhile, geology had a great deal of sorting out to do, and not all of it went smoothly. From the outset geologists tried to categorize rocks by the...
• 2.万物简史 第88期:敲石头的人们(13)
• Lyell's oversights were not inconsiderable. He failed to explain convincingly how mountain ranges were formed and overlooked glaciers as an agent of c...
• 3.万物简史 第87期:敲石头的人们(9)
• Then there was Dr. James Parkinson, who was also an early socialist and author of many provocative pamphlets with titles like Revolution without Blood...
• 4.万物简史 第86期:敲石头的人们(8)
• Throughout the modern, thinking world, but especially in Britain, men of learning ventured into the countryside to do a little stone-breaking, as they...
• 5.万物简史 第85期:敲石头的人们(7)
• The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing fieldwork. These weren't people ...
• 6.万物简史 第84期:敲石头的人们(6)
• Luckily Hutton had a Boswell in the form of John Playfair, a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a close friend, who could not...
• 7.万物简史 第83期:敲石头的人们(5)
• In 1785, Hutton worked his ideas up into a long paper, which was read at consecutive meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It attracted almost n...
• 8.万物简史 第82期:敲石头的人们(4)
• It was while puzzling over these matters that Hutton had a series of exceptional insights. From looking at his own farmland, he could see that soil wa...
• 9.万物简史 第81期:敲石头的人们(3)
• Among the questions that attracted interest in that fanatically inquisitive age was one that had puzzled people for a very long timenamely, why ancien...
• 10.万物简史 第80期:敲石头的人们(2)
• Yet almost singlehandedly, and quite brilliantly, he created the science of geology and transformed our understanding of the Earth. Hutton was born in...