L’Ordre actuel du monde a-t-il toujours existé? Le temps geologique. Influence des marces sur les mouvements celeste. Chaleur du soleil. Chuleur centrale de la terre. Age de la terre. [Has the current world order always existed? Geological time. Influence of the marces on celestial movements. Heat from the sun. Central heat of the earth. Age of the earth.] (French), within Revue Des Cours Scientifiques De La France Et De L'Etranger, vol. 6, no. 1

L’Ordre actuel du monde a-t-il toujours existé? Le temps geologique. Influence des marces sur les mouvements celeste. Chaleur du soleil. Chuleur centrale de la terre. Age de la terre. [Has the current world order always existed? Geological time. Influence of the marces on celestial movements. Heat from the sun. Central heat of the earth. Age of the earth.] (French), within Revue Des Cours Scientifiques De La France Et De L'Etranger, vol. 6, no. 1

Thomson, Sir W., Societe Geologique de Glasgow

Paris: Bailliere, 1868. Revue Des Cours Scientifiques De La France Et De L'Etranger, vol. 6, no. 1. 5 December 1868. pp. 50-61

Bibliotheque Nationale de France

1868

"Jan. 23. Since I wrote last I have finished a little poem on Old Agatha. But the last week or two I have been so disturbed in health that no work prospers. I have made a little way in constructing my new Tale, have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th Book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs. Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's Speeches, which I am still reading- besides the first four Cantos of Don Juan. But the last two or three days I have seemed to live under a leaden pressure - all movement mental or bodily is grievous to me. In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the Spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis." Diary 1861-1877 134

Thomson, Sir W., Societe Geologique de Glasgow, L’Ordre actuel du monde a-t-il toujours existé? Le temps geologique. Influence des marces sur les mouvements celeste. Chaleur du soleil. Chuleur centrale de la terre. Age de la terre. [Has the current world order always existed? Geological time. Influence of the marces on celestial movements. Heat from the sun. Central heat of the earth. Age of the earth.] (French), within Revue Des Cours Scientifiques De La France Et De L'Etranger, vol. 6, no. 1, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57199

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