- Paracelsus
One whisker on my cheek owns more intelligence than all of you,
Come, let me fill you with stories of men-
Not just of men - but of scientists!
Greeks, including Aristotle
four propertiesRomans
four elements
Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Diluvialists (Great Deluge)
Catastrophists
Neptunists (Abraham Werner)
Plutonists (James Hutton)
UNIFORMITARIANISMWm. "Strata" Smith (faunal succession)
superposition
original horizontality
original lateral continuity
cross-cutting relationahips
inclusions
Charles Lyell ("Principles of Geology")
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