The Changeful Earth: An Introduction to the Record of the Rocks (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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SO much attention is now given to the practical and systematic study of science in schools, that the valuable influence of descriptive scientific literature is apt to be overlooked. An intimate knowledge of the simplest fact in Nature can be Obtained only by personal observation or experiment in the Open air or the laboratory, but broad views of scientific thought and progress are secured best from books in which the methods and results of investigation are stated in language which is simple without being childish.

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