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Charles Lyell
This great 1863 classic presents a general survey of evidence of the beginnings of humanity, discusses deposits from the glacial epoch, and supports Darwin’s theory of the origin of species…
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A travelogue written by the famous geologist and scientist Charles Lyell, documenting his second visit to America in the 19th century. The book provides an insightful look into American society…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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Principles Of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes Of The Earth And Its Inhabitants Considered As Illustrative Of Geology. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards…
Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell’s Principles was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
This book is an insightful and deeply engaging account of Charles Lyell's second visit to the United States. It provides a fascinating view of American life and society during the…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Principles of Geology is a groundbreaking classic of science, Mentioned multiple times in glowing terms by Charles Darwin, in The Origin of Species, and heralded by such contemporaries as Melville…
Charles Lyell introduces geology, explaining the characteristics of the Earth and its minerals, and how time affects change over the course of time. This edition unites the three books, and…
The noted Scotsman travels again through the U.S., examining the development of the country. Traveling extensively up and down the East Coast, he considers culture, politics, slavery, education and more…
The book, Principles Of Geology; Being An Inquiry How Far The Former Changes Of The Earth’S Surface Are Referable To Causes Now In Operation (Volume Ii), has been considered by…
Das Alter des Menschengeschlechts auf der Erde - Der Ursprung der Arten durch Abanderung ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1864. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur…
Between 1830 and 1833, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) published his three-volume Principles of Geology (also reissued in this series). He originally intended some of the present work, first published in 1838…
In 1830 the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell published a groundbreaking book that championed uniformitarianism, the belief that the changing features of the Earth’s surface were produced by the consistent operation…
In 1832, Scottish geologist Charles Lyell published the second volume of his groundbreaking trilogy, which profoundly influenced Charles Darwin. Lyell examines the connections between the Earth’s changing crust and the…
In 1833, the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell published the final volume of his groundbreaking trilogy, which profoundly influenced Charles Darwin. With infectious enthusiasm, Lyell describes the composition of the Earth’s…
Sir Charles Lyell ‘s The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863) synthesises the then existing evidence for the earliest humans, and discusses Darwin’s theory and 'the bearing of…
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was one of the most renowned geologists of the nineteenth century. These volumes, first published in 1845, are the result of his 1841 tour across the…
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Unveranderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1864.
