Safety Lamp Quotes (1)
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921), viii.
See also: | Dark Ages (2) | Charles Darwin (171) | Leonardo da Vinci (16) | Sir Humphry Davy (36) | Discovery (178) | Earth (98) | Electricity (30) | Galileo Galilei (56) | Genesis (3) | Industry (21) | Invention (93) | Moon (37) | Sun (43)