The book of earth
by Alfred Noyes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958
- Original Publication
- United States: Frederick A. Stokes,1925.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Scientists -- Poetry
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68134
- Release Date
- May 20, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BOOK OF EARTH
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.I—THE BOOK OF EARTH — I The Grand Canyon — II Night and the Abyss — III The Wings
- 4.II—THE GREEKS — I Pythagoras — I. THE GOLDEN BROTHERHOOD — II. DEATH IN THE TEMPLE — II Aristotle — I. YOUTH AND THE SEA — II. THE EXILE
- 5.III—MOVING EASTWARD — I Farabi and Avicenna — II Avicenna’s Dream
- 6.IV—THE TORCH IN ITALY Leonardo Da Vinci — I HILLS AND THE SEA — II AT FLORENCE
- 7.V—IN FRANCE Jean Guettard — I THE ROCK OF THE GOOD VIRGIN — II MALESHERBES AND THE BLACK MILESTONES — III THE SHADOW OF PASCAL — IV AT PARIS — V THE RETURN
- 8.VI—IN SWEDEN — Linnæus
- 9.VII—LAMARCK AND THE REVOLUTION — I Lamarck and Buffon — II Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-three — III An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin — IV Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa
- 10.VIII—IN GERMANY Goethe — I THE DISCOVERER — II THE PROPHET
- 11.IX—IN ENGLAND Darwin — I CHANCE AND DESIGN — II THE VOYAGE — III THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS — IV THE PROTAGONISTS — V The Vera Causa
- 12.X—EPILOGUE
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