Status
Available
Publication
Oxford: At the University Press for the author, 1820.
Language
Physical description
38 p.; 28 cm
Local notes
"An inaugural lecture delivered before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the endowment of a readership in geology by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent"
A plea to accept geology into Oxford classical tradition: “modern geology presenting its credentials to a university where humanistic learning [with emphasis on text, testimony] reigned supreme.” Presented Cuvier’s modern historical (catastrophic) geology but emphasized Flood more. Tradition of earth and human history coeval, with Bible most reliable source. Argues for Design, physico-theology, Deluge. Buckland suggests that Bible is for moral history, not physical.
A plea to accept geology into Oxford classical tradition: “modern geology presenting its credentials to a university where humanistic learning [with emphasis on text, testimony] reigned supreme.” Presented Cuvier’s modern historical (catastrophic) geology but emphasized Flood more. Tradition of earth and human history coeval, with Bible most reliable source. Argues for Design, physico-theology, Deluge. Buckland suggests that Bible is for moral history, not physical.