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Definition of Geogonies
1. geogony [n] - See also: geogony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geogonies
Literary usage of Geogonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genesis and science; or, The first leaves of the Bible by John Muehleisen Arnold (1875)
"... as the transmutation hypothesis was imported from Hindustan into France in 1749.
Let us now glance at the ancient Hindu geogonies for a few moments. ..."
2. The Philosophy of Common Sense by Frederic Harrison (1907)
"... and geogonies, with all these yearnings after a knowledge of the Universe,
and with all these Absolute philosophies of the All as it is, ..."
3. The Philosophy of Common Sense by Frederic Harrison (1907)
"... and geogonies, with all these yearnings after a knowledge of the Universe,
and with all these Absolute philosophies ..."
4. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"times: and most of the attempts at Geology previous to the present period have
been Cosmogonies or geogonies, rather than that more genuine science which we ..."
5. The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval by Charles Hamilton Smith (1859)
"... far from continents, like flaming beacons at sea, towards the South Pole, as
Hecla is in the north, may be elaborating elements for future geogonies, ..."
6. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"... Geology previous to the present period have been Cosmogonies or geogonies,
rather than that more genuine science which we have endeavoured to delineate. ..."
7. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"... and leading it to the middle of the last century ; the period of cosmogonies
and geogonies, in which ' geology, placed in the rank of vain speculations, ..."
8. A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies by Granville Penn (1825)
"Overtly, or covertly, it is inherent in the root of the mineral geology; and must
continue there to live, so long as the neptunian and vulcanian geogonies ..."
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