Most Popular Books by Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell''s argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia.

Charles Lyell profoundly influenced Charles Darwin with this pioneering research on the Earth''s changing surface, climate and species adaptation.

Comparison of Engis, Australian and Neanderthal skulls Brief remarks on types of stone implements from Australia.

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 (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially the same as those that have acted throughout the history of the earth, and are sufficient to account for all geological phenomena. Martin J. S. Rudwick''s new Introduction, summarizing the origins of the Principles, guides the reader through the structure of the entire three-volume first edition and considers the legacy of Lyell''s great work.

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 (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially the same as those that have acted throughout the history of the earth, and are sufficient to account for all geological phenomena. Martin J. S. Rudwick''s new Introduction, summarizing the origins of the Principles, guides the reader through the structure of the entire three-volume first edition and considers the legacy of Lyell''s great work. -- from back cover.

The first published biography of geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) containing selected letters and extracts from his journal.

In this 1838 work, the influential geologist Charles Lyell expands on topics raised in his earlier Principles of Geology.

"The Student''s Elements of Geology" from Charles Lyell. British lawyer and geologist (1797-1875).

"The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man" from Charles Lyell. British lawyer and geologist (1797-1875).

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The "Antiquity of Man" was published in 1863, and ran into a third edition in the course of that year. The cause of this is not far to seek. Darwin''s "Origin of Species" appeared in 1859, only four years earlier, and rapidly had its effect in drawing attention to the great problem of the origin of living beings. The theories of Darwin and Wallace brought to a head and presented in a concrete shape the somewhat vague speculations as to development and evolution which had long been floating in the minds of naturalists.