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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.

Richard Kirwan

Richard Kirwan

Richard Kirwan

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Born: August 1, 1733

Died: June 22, 1812 (aged 78)

Bio: Richard Kirwan was an Irish scientist. He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston.

Known for:

Elements of Mineralogy (1784)
If Maps Could Speak

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