Buffon's Natural History (Volume 1); Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &C. &C - Softcover
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1797. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... advancing on the southern side was not currents, but that the sea flowed by raising itself towards the heavens, and that perhaps both one and the other touched on the southern side. True it is, that in great enterprises the least unfortunate circumstance may turn a man's brain, and abate his courage. ARTICLE VII. ON THE PRODUCTION OF THE STRATA, OR BEDS OF EARTH. have shewn, in the first article, that by virtue of the mutual attraction between the parts of matter, and of the centrifugal force, which results from its diurnal rotation, the earth has necessarily taken the form of a spheroid, the diameters of which differ about a 230th 230th part, and that it could only proceed from the changes on the surface, caused by the motion of the air and water, that this disference could become greater, as is pretended to be the case from the measures taken under the equator, and within the polar circle. This sigure of the Earth, which so well agrees with hydrostatical laws, and with our theory, supposes the globe to have been in a state of liquefaction when it assumed its form, and we have proved that the motion of projection and rotation were imprinted at the* fame time by a like impulsion. We shall the more easily believe that the earth has been in a state of liquefaction produced by fire, when we consider the nature of the matters which the globe incloses, the greatest part of which are vitrified or vitrifiable; especially when we reflect on the impossibility there is that the earth should ever have been in a state of sluidity, produced by the waters; since there is infinitely more earth than water, and that water has not the power of dissolving stone, sand, and other matters of which the earth is composed. It is plain then that the earth took its figure at the time when it ...
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