Charles Lyell

Broschiertes Buch

Principles of Geology

Beschreibung

Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord.

Autor

SIR CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875), British geologist. Lyell is most famous for his great geological opus: The Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (3 vols 1830-33). Jim Secord is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and is the author of Controversy in Victorian Geology (1986).

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 41350
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 132mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780140435283
• ISBN-10: 014043528X
• Artikelnr.: 14893415