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CIIAPTEE III. 



HISTORY OP THE PROGRESS OP GEOLOGY 



continued. 



ARVBIAN WRITERS OF THE TENTH CENTURY— AVICENNA— OMAR— COSMOGONY 

 OF THE KORAN— KAZWINI-EARLY ITALIAN WRITERS— LEONARDO DA VINCI- 

 FRACASTORO- CONTROVERSY AS TO THE REAL NATURE OF FOSSILS— ATTRI- 

 BUTED TO THE MOSAIC DELUGE— PALISSY -STENO-SCILLA— QUIRINI— BOYLE 



HOOKe's THEORY OF ELEVATION BY EARTHQUAKES 



LISTER — LEIBNITZ 



OF LOST SPECIES OF ANIMALS 

 WARD'S DILUVIAL THEORY 



•BAY PHYSICO-THEOLOGICAL WRITERS — WOOD- 

 BURNET WHISTON — VALLISNERI LAZZARO 



MORO— GENERELLI— BUFFON— HIS THEORY CONDEMNED BY THE SORBONNE 



AS UNORTHODOX — HIS DECLARATION — TARGIONI ARDUINO — MICHELL 



CATCOTT — RASPE — FUCHSEL — FORTIS — TESTA — WHITEHURST — PALLAS 



SAUSSURE. 



Roman 



some 



Arabian writers. 



the cultivation of physical science was first 

 success by the Saracens, about the middle of the eighth cen- 

 tury of our era. The works of the most eminent classic writers 

 were purchased at great expense from 

 translated into Arabic ; and Al Mamuri, son of the famous Ha- 

 run-al-Bashid, the contemporary of Charlemagne, received 

 with marks of distinction, at his court at Bagdad, astronomers 

 and men of learning from different countries. This caliph, 



and 



some 



Mahometan 



the Moslems to confine their studies to the Koran, dread- 

 ino- the effects of the diffusion of a taste for the physical 



sciences."* 



Avicenna. — Almost all the works of the early Arabian 



writers are lost. Amongst those of the tenth century, of which 



ments 



Minerals 



* Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. ii. chap. iy. section iii. 





