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Aug 16, 2008 · Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1830-1833. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Feb 25, 2011 · Principles of geology. by. Lyell, Charles. Publication date. 1837. Publisher. London John Murray. Collection. biodiversity; darwinslibrary.
Oct 27, 2005 · One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the...
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As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science. In this first of three volumes, Charles Lyell...
Oct 27, 2018 · Lyell was a prolific writer, summarizing his thoughts, contributions, and achievements in these major works: "Principles of Geology" (1830, 1831, 1833), "Antiquity of Man," and "Travels in...
This paper describes briefly the origins of Lyell’s project, in the international geological debates of the 1820s and in his own early research; the structure of argument of the first edition (1830–1833), and its relation to its intended readership; and the modification of the work in subsequent editions, and the transformation of its ...
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In 1830–33, Charles Lyell laid the foundations of evolutionary biology with Principles of Geology, a pioneering three-volume book that Charles Darwin took with him on the Beagle. Lyell championed the ideas of geologist James Hutton, who formulated one of the fundamental principles of modern geology – uniformitarianism.
