Principles of Geology

CONTENTS (abridged list)
BOOK I. (Chapters I. to XIII.)
historical sketch of the progress of geology, with a series of essays to show that the monuments of the ancient state of the earth and its inhabitants, which this science interprets, can only be understood by a previous acquaintance with terrestrial changes now in progress, both in the organic and inorganic worlds.
CHAPTER I
Geology defined — Its relation to other Sciences
CHAPTER II.
Oriental and Egyptian Cosmogonies — Doctrines of the Greeks and Romans bearing on Geology
CHAPTER III.
Historical progress of Geology — Arabian Writers — Italian, French, German, and English geologists before the 19th century — Physico-theological school
CHAPTER IV.
Werner and Hutton — Modern progress of the science