3 Quotes by Jean-Andre Deluc

  • Author Jean-Andre Deluc
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    I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

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  • Author Jean-Andre Deluc
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    We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

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  • Author Jean-Andre Deluc
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    It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

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