A Cambridge geologist tells the life of Charles Lyell from childhood and Oxford days to his travels and long career, and explains the ideas in Principles of Geology that taught readers to see the earth shaped by slow, ordinary causes over vast time. Bonney also weighs where Lyell’s thinking fell short, as on the origins of metamorphic rock.
A clear Victorian introduction to the geologist whose work prepared the ground for Darwin. Download the free EPUB.