Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell : biography 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875 Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS (14 November 1797 – 22...

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell : biography 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875 While in South America Darwin received Volume 2 which considered the ideas of Lamarck...

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell : biography 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875 May 3, 1860: "Mr. Darwin has written a work which will constitute an era...

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell : biography 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875 Glaciers In Principles of Geology (first edition, vol. 3, Ch. 2, 1833) Lyell proposed...

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell : biography 14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875 Uniformitarianism From 1830 to 1833 his multi-volume Principles of Geology was published. The work's...

James Hutton

James Hutton : biography 14 June 1726 - 26 March 1797 James Hutton (3 June 1726 OS (14 June 1726 NS) – 26...

James Hutton

James Hutton : biography 14 June 1726 - 26 March 1797 Though Hutton circulated privately a printed version of the abstract of his Theory (Concerning...

James Hutton

James Hutton : biography 14 June 1726 - 26 March 1797 Search for evidence At Glen Tilt in the Cairngorm mountains in the Scottish Highlands...

James Hutton

James Hutton : biography 14 June 1726 - 26 March 1797 Other contributions Meteorology It was not merely the earth to which Hutton directed his...

James Hutton

James Hutton : biography 14 June 1726 - 26 March 1797 After his degree Hutton returned to London, then in mid-1750 went back to Edinburgh...