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Charles Lyell Publishes The Principles of Geology (1830-33), in Which He Proposes the Actual Age of Earth to be Several Hundred Million Years. Overview. Until relatively recently most people assumed that Earth was relatively young.
Principles of Geology 2nd edition, 2nd vol. Jan. 1833; Principles of Geology 3rd edition, 4 vols. May 1834; Principles of Geology 4th edition, 4 vols. June 1835; Principles of Geology 5th edition, 4 vols. March 1837; Principles of Geology 6th edition, 3 vols. June 1840; Principles of Geology 7th edition, 1 vol. Feb. 1847
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Charles Lyell (1797 — 1875) was a Scottish lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology . It popularized geologist James Hutton’s concept of “uniformitarianism” — the idea that the Earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation today.
Lyell, in his Principles of Geology (1830–33), popularized this new system and paved the way for the acceptance of the great antiquity of man. Charles Darwin regarded Lyell’s Principles as one of the two germinal works in the formation of his own ideas on evolution. Early stone tools…
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 strategy i...
Jul 22, 2010 · Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875: Title: Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Credits: Produced by Julia Miller, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available
Charles Lyell and the Principles of the History of Geology. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009. Roy Porter. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Extract.
