Principles of Geology
$45.17
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
2 December 1997
Summary
Shaping the Earth: Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology
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 modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism, exploring the ev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435283 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014043528X |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Charles Lyell, James Secord |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 December 1997 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Charles Lyell
SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875), British geologist. Lyell is most famous for his great geological opus - The Principles of Geology - Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth’s Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (3 vols 1830-33).
Jim Secord is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and is the author of Controversy in Victorian Geology (1986).
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