An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodyes, Especially Minerals

by John Woodward

Book Overview

For the physician and natural historian John Woodward (c.1655-1728), fossils were the key to unlocking the mystery of the Earth's past, which he attempted to do in this controversial work, first published in 1695 and here reissued in the 1723 third edition. Woodward argues that the 'whole Terrestrial Globe was taken all to Pieces, and dissolved at the Deluge', and that fossilised remains were proof of the flood as described in the Bible. In the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110807698X
• ISBN13: 9781108076982
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"