There's a letter missing from Ediger's
URL. Should be <http://www.periscopefilm.com/>.
Mark Minton
At 08:57 PM 9/22/2010, Gill Edigar wrote:
I have ordered several railroad books that were period pieces and WAY
out of print--like 100 years. As the information was once again in
demand by historians and a few technicians the company had scanned
them and whenever one was ordered--via internet, of course--they
simply printed it out, bound it, and sent it out, all pretty much
without more than 5 or 10 minutes of human attention. Now that's a
good system. The company has thousands of titles of public domain
publications on all topics. Try <www.perisopefilm.com>
--Ediger
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> I regret to say that I don't have a copy of
the 300-year-old book that Terry
> Plemons mentioned, but it can be downloaded from Google Books:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=c5Q5AAAAcAAJ
>
> Or just do a Google search for Woodward "Natural History of the Earth".
> There's also a paperback 2010 reprint available from Amazon. It's gotten
> really easy to make a facsimile reprint of a book as either a PDF file or a
> paper book. I've done a two or three thousand pages of that sort of thing
> for the Association for Mexican Cave Studies.
>
> Its full, old-fashioned title is "An Essay towards a Natural Hitory of the
> Earth, and Terretrial Bodies, Epecially Minerals: As alſo of the Sea,
> Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge: And of the
> Effects that it had upon the Earth." London, second edition 1702.
>
> His research involved "taking a careful and exact view of Things on all
> hands as they preented; in order to inform
my elf of the preeent Condition
> of the Earth, and all Bodies contained in it, as far as either Grotto's, or
> other Natural Caverns, or Mines, Quarries, Colepits, and the like let me
> into it, and diplayed to ight the interiour Parts of it."
>
> Spoiler warning. It's all because of the Flood. -- Mixon
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