Abstract:In the latter, he developed a Theory of the Earth characteristic of that time, wherein assumed the actualistics-uniformitarianists ideas, with gradual changes, the cycles of matter, an Earth in steady state, and a time with no beginning nor an end, that to a certain extent could have a considerable influence on the James Hutton's theory and also on Charles Lyell. The Actualism, however, in its essential assumptions such as the inference to the past from the present by means of the causes now in operation, is a… Show more
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