...losing its carbonic acid. This was ridiculed by his opponents, on whom he retorted that they "judged of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible." Hall, however, to whom fire and crucible were congenial implements, resolved to put the question to...

...truly knowing what they see, think they know those regions of the earth which can never be seen, and who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible." 2 Sir James Hall, notwithstanding his veneration for his master, could not agree with him in this verdict....

...after the death (1797) of Hutton who objected to the judgment of the vast operations of nature through "having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible." He was elected president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, invented a machine for the regulation of...

...James Hall, the originator of experimental geology; undismayed by Button's scathing censure of those who " judge of the great operations of the mineral...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible," he began a series of experiments on fusion and crystallisation of igneous rocks in 1799. 2 The present...

...truly knowing what they see think they know those regions of the earth that can never be seen, and who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible," and Sorby was right when half a century later he argued, on behalf of the microscope, " there is no...

...a reply by daring to drag Nature into their laboratories. " What ! " said he, in a different essay, "judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom...fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible ! " Sir James Hall, however, resolved not to be thus discouraged. Such was his veneration for his friend...

...expressed the idea in his reply to the strictures of Kirwan, there are some " superficial reasoning men who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom...kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible."f But, though unconvinced, Hall, out of deference to his master's feelings, forbore to put...

...complete contrast to continental mineralogists, Mutton (1795, 251) asserted that it was not right to "judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom,...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible." His arguments against the decisiveness of experiments were sophisticated, deeply rooted in his epistemology....

...Hutton. Hall (1800) himself later pointed out that Hutton (1795, p 251) had censured those who would "judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom,...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible." Undaunted by the skepticism of his friend, Hall began his experiments in 1 790 by melting and cooling...

...surely prevailed deep in the Earth were out of reach of any conceivable apparatus. He censured those who 'judge of the great operations of the mineral...and looked into the bottom of a little crucible'. He may have been nervous that negative results from flawed experiments would do his arguments more...