Earth Sciences 1083F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Robert Hooke, Uniformitarianism, James Hutton
12 Sep 2016
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The holy and the heretical: pre-darwin concepts of fossils and. Mystic images produced images into stone: they were not living things, they only resembled living things. One of the first accounts of fossils. Fossils were things that did not have the breath of life breathed into them. Ancient greece: cyclops or elephant: fossils of elephants have been found in the same area, myth of cyclops could have sprung from the elephant fossils that were found by ancient people. Objects interpreted as falling stars actually were: belemnite guards. Internal skeleton of squid-like animals: segments of crinoid stems. They resemble a star in shape which could lead to the theory that they were falling stars. Out of classical greek philosophy (with modifications made by christian thinkers) came the concept of the great chain of being which featured the non-living entities and. Lowest life forms at the bottom and god at the top. Big change came about with him during the.
