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1 T or F: Cuvier was the first to recognize that the first step to make in divining the past is to establish the present firmly.
2 T or F: Kuhn finds 17th century encyclopedic writings are a mess
3 T or F: Profundity of a revolution in science can be gauged by the virulence of conservative attacks.
4 T or F: Füchsel erkannte, dass die Erde aus Schichten besteht, die nacheinander und unter gleichen Verhältnissen entstanden sind.
5 T or F: William Whewell favored "uniformitarian" thinking over "catastrophism."
6 T or F: Bacon saw Mathematics as the door and key to the sciences.
7 T or F: The statement "The Present is the key to the Past" occurs in the Introduction
to Geikie’s Text-book of Geology, 1882.
 

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Kuhn
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Cohen
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Füchsel
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von Hoff
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1 T or F: The eruption 79 CE of Monte Somma, buried the commercial city of Pompeii to roof height in ash
2 T or F: Kircher postulated that all volcanoes are safety valves of Earth’s fiery interior.
3 T or F: Lacroix called the "fiery cloud," that buried the commercial city of Pompeii a nuée ardente.
4 T or F: Pliny The Elder mourned Pliny The Younger.
5 T or F: A masonry dam was built ca. 2925 BCE to control Nile-overflow into the Faiyum Depression.
6 T or F: Before there were land plants there was no soil as we know it.
7 T or F: More than two billion years ago there as much free oxygen in the atmosphere as today.  

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Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch
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Cicero
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Seneca
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Plutarch
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Pliny
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Egypt, first masonry dam
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(Types of dams)
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Before land plants
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Free oxygen, burial of plant debris
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Kauffman, Investigations
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