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8-volume History Of Earth: Goldsmith's historical writings include the 2-volume History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son (1764), the 4-volume History of England (1771), a 2-volume history of Rome (1769), and a 2-volume work on Greece (1774). None of these were products of original research; Goldsmith merely read through the authoritative histories in print and digested them in his own more readable style.Frequently revised and brought up to date, they remained standard texts in English and American schools for nearly a century, as did his 8-volume History of Earth and Animated Nature (1774), a survey of natural history drawn from many sources, but enlivened and enriched by his own observations.
The solid crust on which we live is no thicker in relation to the earth than an egg shell, taking up only one-and-a-half per cent of the earth's volume. Scientists have been able to learn a great deal about the uppermost part of the crust by direct observation. Their knowledge of the earth's interior, on the other hand, comes from the study of earthquake wave paths. |
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