geognosy

• Examples drawn from astronomy, recent optical discoveries, physical geognosy, and the geography of plants. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
• The study of these relations leads, by a double course, to the mineral portion of geognosy (the study of the textures and of the position of the earth's strata), and to the configuration of continents and insular groups elevated above the level of the sea (the study of the geographical form and outlines of the different parts of the earth. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
• Modern geognosy, the mineral portion of terrestrial physics, has made no slight advance in having investigated this connection of phenomena. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
• The inquiring and active spirit of man must be suffered to pass from the present to the past, to conjecture all that can not yet be known with certainty, and still to dwell with pleasure on the ancient myths of geognosy which are presented to us under so many various forms. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
• We here arrive at the point to which I have already alluded, at which a well-grounded study of the activity of volcanoes, whether igneous or merely such as emit gaseous exhalations, leads us, on the one hand, to the mineralogical branch of geognosy (the science of the texture and the succession of terrestrial strata), and, on the other, to the science of geographical forms and outlines -- the configuration of continents and insular groups elevated above the level p 248 of the sea. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1

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