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THE fundamental thesis of the author, involving his conception of the true province of the science of comparative terrestrial physics, appears to be this:—If a series of maps of the globe, or any part of it, drawn at different times during several centuries, be compared, there becomes obvious a radical want of truthfulness in the older representations; such coast-lines, such mountain-chains, such river-courses are utterly impossible. On the other hand, a modern map convinces us at once of its internal truth. This truth must be founded on some general laws, which must be discoverable by studying the resemblances in the external features of countries; and finally a series of such resemblances distributed over different localities must lead to the discovery of the conditions of their origin.
Terrestrial Physics.—Probleme der vergleichenden Erdkunde.
By Oscar Peschel. (Leipzig, 1870.)
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L., B. Terrestrial Physics—Probleme der vergleichenden Erdkunde. Nature 1, 212 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001212a0
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