An introduction to the natural history of the terrestrial sphere
Subtitle: principally concerning new islands born from the sea, and Hooke's hypothesis of the earth, on the origin of mountains and petrified bodies, to be further established from accurate descriptions and observations.
By: Translated and edited by Audrey Notvik Iversen and Albert V. Carozzi, including a facsim. of the 1763 ed.
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.; Islands.; Earth movements.; Geology -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of Specimen historiae naturalis globi terraquei.
Text in English and Latin.