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“Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly under the Water, and that either by the descending of the Waters to another part of the Earth by the alteration of the Centre of Gravity of the whole bulk, or rather by the Eruption of some kind of Subterraneous Fires or Earthquakes, great quantities of Earth have been deserted by the Water and laid bare and dry.”

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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke (July 28, 1635 - March 3, 1703) was an English philosopher, physicist, astronomer, and inventor. Known for his numerous contributions to science, Hooke is particularly recognized for his formulation of Hooke's Law and his improvements to the microscope and telescope. more

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“Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.”