| 2.1 |
The frontispiece from the first edition of Thomas Burner's Telluris |
| theoria sacm, or Soured Theory of the Earth. 20 |
| 2.2 | Burnet attempts to assess the amount of water in the oceans by |
| the classical method of sounding. (From first edition.) 31 |
| 2.3 | Burnet's physical cause of the deluge. (From first English edi- |
| tion.) 33 |
| 2.4 | The earth's current surface, a product of crustal collapse during |
| the deluge. (From first edition.) 34 |
| 2.5 | The chaos of the primeval earth as related in Genesis 1. (From |
| first edition.) 35 |
| 2.6 | The perfect earth of the original paradise of Eden, arranged as |
| concentric layers according to density after the descent of particles |
| from primeval chaos. (From first edition.) 35 |
| 2.7 | The earth's surface in its paradisiacal state. (From first English |
| edition.) 37 |
| 2.8 | The earth made perfect a second time, after the descent of parti- |
| cles by density into concentric layers following the future confla- |
| gration. (From first edition.) 39 |
| 2.9 | Steno's geological history of Tuscany, as rearranged in the English |
| translation by J. G. Winter (1916). 53 |
| 2.10 | The geological history of Tuscany in Steno's original version, |
| arranged as two parallel columns. 55 |
| 3.1 | John Clerk of Eldin's celebrated engraving of Hutton's uncon- |
| formity at Jedburgh, Scodand. Courtesy of Sir John Clerk of Pen- |
| icuik, from Hutton: The Lost Drawings (Edinburgh: Scottish Aca- |
| demic Press Limited). 60 |
| 3.2 | A figure from the first edition of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geol- |
| ogy (1830) showing the famous locality where Hutton confirmed |
