Oliver Goldsmith 1832 Cover worn as shown and spine separating at top. Pages throughly browned from age, however, the book is still tightly bound and entirely readable. Highly descriptive account of the earth and its inhabitants with the knowledge of the times. The end of chapter on meteors lists recent stone falls: "1790, July 24. A great shower of stones fell at Barbotan near Roquefort, in the vicinity of Bourdeaux. A mass, fifteen inches in diameter, penetrated a hut, and killed a herdsman and a bullock. Some of the stones weighed 25lb. and others 30lb."
In a chapter on the sense of hearing: Musicians....have contented themselves with seven different proportions of sound, which are called notes, and which sufficiently answer all the purposes of pleasure."
A History of the Earth and of Animals in General
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