Charles Lyell Quote

Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been formed in the Mediterranean, and of other convulsions, shows that the ancients had not been inattentive observers of the changes which had taken place on the earth within the memory of man.

Chpt.2, p. 22 - Principles of geology (1832) Vol.1

Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been...

Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been...

Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been...

Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been...