Sir Charles Lyell, a noted English geologist, was born at Kin-nordy, Forfarshire, Scotland, November 14, 1797, and died in London, February 22, 1875. His boyhood home in the New Forest…

"The Student's Elements of Geology" by Charles Lyell is a seminal work that serves as a foundational guide to the principles of geology. Lyell, a pioneering Scottish geologist, presents a…

Lyell, while still a young man, determined that he would endeavour to put geology–then only beginning to rank as a science–on a more sound and philosophical basis. To accomplish this…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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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…

Principles of geology - The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants. Edition 12, Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is…

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…

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…