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== ''De Subtilitate'' (1550) == [[File:Cardano, Girolamo β De subtilitate, 1559 β BEIC 3024364.jpg|thumb|upright|''De subtilitate'', 1559 edition]] As quoted from [[Charles Lyell]]'s ''[[Principles of Geology]]'': <blockquote> The title of a work of Cardano's, published in 1552, ''De Subtilitate'' (corresponding to what would now be called [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling#Naturphilosophie|transcendental philosophy]]), would lead us to expect, in the chapter on minerals, many far fetched theories characteristic of that age; but when treating of petrified shells, he decided that they clearly indicated the former sojourn of the sea upon the mountains.<ref>[[wikiquote:Charles Lyell|Charles Lyell]], ''[https://archive.org/details/principlesgeolo01unkngoog Principles of Geology]'', 1832, p.29</ref> </blockquote>
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