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a6   Geology defined
  
 1  T or F: Simpson wrote the book entitled Fabric of Geology.
 2  T or F: The discovery of and testing for truth of configurational sequences is historical science.
 3  T or F: Chemistry and physics are historical sciences.
 4  T or F: Savants in Saussure’s time, Rudwick writes, "were amused to frighten horses and excite servants."
 5  T or F: Geology includes the study of life for the useful fossil record that it leaves, and liffe as a geological agent.
 6  T or F: Vai finds that the word geology with its Huttonian meaning was first used by Aldrovandi.
 7  T or F: In Travels in the Alps, de Saussure used the term geologie ("geology" in German) as had Deluc.
 8  T or F: Geology, as Playfair explained to Lyell, seeks to discover scientific laws rather than principles.
 9  T or F: Geology (Earth study) has both ahistorical and is historical components.
10 T or F: Historical geology makes for successful predictions and retrodictions.
11 T or F: Agricola was a mining engineer.
12 T or F: Agricola could not rely on the opinion of Berman who was a Bohemian.
13 T or F: Lou Henry Hoover was president Herbert Hoover’s son.
14 T or F: De re metallica is Latin for "On the Nature of Fossils (replaced by Pyrite)."
15 T or F: Tempora mutantur is the subtitle Haydn gave to his Symphony No. 64 in A major

Simpson 014-01-01 Fabric of Geology 014-02-01. Contra Simpson 014-03-01
Historical science 014-04-01
Rudwick 2006 014-05-01
Aldrovandi coined "geology" 014-06-01 014-06-02
Vai 014-07-01 014-07-01
Saussure 014-08-01
Travels in Alps 014-09-01 014-09-02 014-09-03 (Alps 014-09-04 )
Deluc 014-10-01 014-10-02
Predictions, Retrodictions 014-11-02	Physical science, Historical science
Agricola 014-12-01 014-12-02
I have omitted ... 014-13-01
De Re Metallica 014-14-01 015-12-01 015-12-02 015-13-01 Bermannus 014-14-02
Joachimsthal 014-15-01 014-15-02
Herbert Clark Hoover 015-10-01 Lou Henry Hoover 015-11-01
Tempora mutantur 015-14-01 (015-14-02)	Times change.