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Principles of geology or, the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology language. It also hosts one of the internets most popular collections of static maps. Lyells exposure to american life not only led to new geological understanding but also developed his interest in aspects of education, public reforms and religious belief. Lyell and the principles of geology service email alerting. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and. Geology definedcompared to historyits relation to other physical sciencesnot to be confounded with cosmogony. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion. Principles of geology by sir charles lyell alibris. As the author of principles of geology, lyell laid. These two volumes are intact with joints holding, but with very worn bindings with a few spots of stain to covers, bumped corners rubbed through to the boards, splits at the joints down the spines, ragged spine ends, the interior is heavily foxed, edges browned, with signatures just beginning to loosen, rear endpaper in v.
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