Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell, the father of modern Geology (although I disagree). Lyell was the student of James Hutton and through them the uniformitarianism vs catastrophism argument was born. Lyell is incredibally important to modern sciences and Sir Charles Darwin himself states in "The Origin of the Species"......more

By 1833 Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology had been published. Only three decades earlier, the Reverend Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible, had also been published. In this earlier work, the cleric had created a timeline describing the history of creation based on the reportage of the Old Testament.......more

Rock solid reasoning Like others before me, I came to this book via Darwin. Having got heavily into reading Darwin, particularly over the period of his bicentennial, I wanted to go to some of Darwin's own sources: Malthus 'On Population', and the oft-referred to 'Principles of Geology', by Charles Ly......more