Dr Beringer's fossils: A study in the evolution of scientific world view

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• In Chapter 14, Beringer states: ‘I must confess that I often put down my pen, distracted and worn out as I was by the demands made on me day and night by my duties, which left me scarcely more than the small hours of the night to compose a work that would be subjected to critical examination by those outside our land’. (This and other translations from Latin cited in the present paper are from Jahn and Woolf Jahn M.E. Woolf D.J. The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963
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• Plate III in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis
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• Plate XIV in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis
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• Also see Plate VIII in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis
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• See Plate VI in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis
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• Plate I in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensiss
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• Championed by Scheuchzer Johannes Wolfard Peter Büttner Daniel-Sigmundus Mylius Gottlob Georg Volkmann, and others, as described in Chapter 3 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis
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• See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 113 113 and 120, for full citation of the work of Assalti
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• From Chapter 3 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 42 42
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• Plates IX and XIV in the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. The quotation is from Chapter 8 Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 70 70
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• From Chapter 8 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 69 69
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• For further information on these theories, see Lhwyd's letter to John Ray, reprinted in Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 142 153
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• From Chapter 6 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 62 62
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• From Chapter 3 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 39 39
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• See the passages from Plot (footnote 9) that are cited in Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 170 171
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• Both quotations in this paragraph are from Chapter 3 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 39 40
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• Both quotations in this paragraph are from Chapter 13 of the Lithographiae Wirceburgensis. See Jahn Woolf The Lying Stones of Dr Beringer, being his Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Berkeley, California 1963 104 106
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