Lyell and Darwin, geologists : studies in the earth sciences in the age of reform / Martin J.S. Rudwick
- Author:
- Rudwick, M. J. S.
- Published:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, [2005]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2005
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 185, 6 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell -- Lyell and the Principles of geology -- Poulett Scrope on the volcanoes of the Auvergne: Lyellian time and political economy -- Lyell on Etna, and the antiquity of the earth -- Historical analogies in the geological work of Charles Lyell -- Charles Lyell's dream of a statistical palaeontology -- Caricature as a source for the history of science: De le Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831 -- Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797-1875) and his London lectures on geology, 1832-33 -- Charles Darwin in London: the integration of public and private science -- Darwin and Glen Roy: a "great failure" in a scientific method?
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0860789594 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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