Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mantell, Gideon Algernon

9781330007051: Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330007050 ISBN 13: 9781330007051

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum

And here we must premise that the state of preservation of an organic body, and the chemical changes which it may have undergone in the mineral kingdom, have no necessary relation to its antiquity for in comparatively modern deposits fossil remains of animals and plants often have acquired a stony hardness, while in rocks of the most ancient epochs they are sometimes as little changed as if they had been entombed in the strata but a few centuries.

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Excerpt from Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, a Hand-Book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British Museum

"If we look with wonder upon the great remains of human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in the midst of the desert; the temples of P�stum, beautiful in the decay of twenty centuries; or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own museums, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past away; with how much deeper feeling of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of nature which mark the revolutions of the Globe; continents broken into islands; one land produced, another destroyed; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil; whole races of animals extinct, and the bones and exuvi� of one class covered with the remains of another, and upon the graves of past generations - the marble or rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world; new generations rising, and order and harmony established, and a system of life and beauty produced out of chaos and death; proving the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness of the Great Cause of all things!" - Sir H.Davy.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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