All 3 Uses of
geology
in
Leaves of Grass
- This is the geologist, this works with the scalper, and this is a mathematician.†
Chpt 3 *
- After the seas are all cross'd, (as they seem already cross'd,) After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist, Finally shall come the poet worthy that name, The true son of God shall come singing his songs.†
Chpt 26
- "Going Somewhere" My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, (Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,) Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep, "Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all, "Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering, "Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,) "The world, the race, the soul—in…†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(geology) a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
or more rarely:
the rocks, minerals, and rock formations of an area