Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution, and restoration of land upon the globe… Read March 7 and April 4 1785. Offprint from: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. I.
[Edinburgh: J. Dickson for the Royal Society of Edinburgh, c.1787]. First edition, extremely rare offprint from the family of the great Scottish mathematician James Stirling (1692–1770), of the epoch-making Theory of the Earth, or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the..... More
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