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The scheme of the Universe is more profound and the unknown is a little nearer than it was recently though to be. But such has been the progress of knowledge since man, in the days before the advent of science naively regarded the earth, his home, as firmament, created a few thousand years previously especially for his benefit.

Joseph Barrell

The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are clearly recorded in the sequence and nature of the sedimentary rocks and their fossils.

Joseph Barrell

The logic of all branches of science points to the existence of some system of evolution of the universe, its complete nature hidden in the vastnesses of time and space, but nevertheless developed in accordance with Nature's laws.

Joseph Barrell

A hypothesis to gain scientific credence must emerge successful from the test of observed facts and mathematical theory.

Joseph Barrell

Joseph Barrell

Joseph Barrell

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Born: December 15, 1869

Died: May 4, 1919 (aged 49)

Bio: Joseph Barrell was an American geologist who developed many ideas on the origins of the Earth, isostasy and ideas on the origins of sedimentary rocks. He suggested that they were produced by the action of rivers, winds, and ice, as well as by marine sedimentation.

Known for:

A Philosophical Study of the Human Mind
Central Connecticut in the Geologic Past
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

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