41. Lyell, Charles Scottish geologist. In his Principles of Geology (1830–33), he opposed the French anatomist Georges Cuvier 's theory that the features of the Earth were formed by a series of http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002119.html

42. Lyell, Charles (1797-1875) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biograph Scottish geologist who believed in the Uniformitarian Principle views of Hutton. He popularized this view in The Principles of Geology Being an Attempt to Explain the Former http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lyell.html

Branch of Science Geologists Nationality Scottish Lyell, Charles (1797-1875) Scottish geologist who believed in the Uniformitarian Principle views of Hutton . He popularized this view in The Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (1833). This popular work painstakingly presented uniformitarianism, and went through 11 editions between 1830 and 1872. Lyell supported Charles Darwin's views on evolution, stating in Philosophie Zoologique (Zoological Philosophy), (1809) that organisms adapted to their environment. He also wrote The Antiquity of Man (1863). He organized geology under the banner of Uniformitarianism, which implied that the earth must be millions of years old.

43. Charles Lyell: Biography From Answers.com Lyell, Charles (1830). Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation. http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-lyell

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45. Charles Lyell: Free Web Books, Online Biographical note. Geologist and writer, son of Charles L., of Kinnordy, Forfarshire (a distinguished botanist and student of Dante), was brought up near the New Forest. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lyell/charles/

The University of Adelaide Library eBooks Help ... Contact us Sir Charles Lyell, 1797–1875 Biographical note Geologist and writer, son of Charles L., of Kinnordy, Forfarshire (a distinguished botanist and student of Dante), was brought up near the New Forest. After going to school at various places in England, he was sent to Oxford, where under Buckland he imbibed a taste for science. He studied law, and was called to the Bar, but soon devoted himself to geology, and made various scientific tours on the Continent, the results of his investigations being published chiefly in the Transactions of the Geological Society, of which he was afterwards repeatedly Pres. His two chief works are The Principles of Geology (1830–33), and The Elements of Geology [1838]. In these books he combated the necessity of stupendous convulsions, and maintained that the greatest geologic changes might be produced by remote causes still in operation. He also published, among other works, Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man [1863]. He was Prof. of Geology in King’s College, London, 1831–33, Pres. of the British Association 1864, knighted in 1848, and created a Baronet in 1864. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. In his later years he was generally recognised as the greatest of living geologists.

46. Charles Lyell (Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875) | The Online Books Page Online Books by. Charles Lyell (Lyell, Charles, Sir, 17971875) Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 The Antiquity of Man, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Lyell, Charles,

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