Charles Lyell: 7 books

2 works of Charles Lyell British lawyer and geologist (1797-1875) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Charles Lyell. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man The Student's Elements of Geology

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One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling...

Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and Indonesia.

Contents: 1. The Oath of Hippocrates 2. Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré 3. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey 4. The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner 5. The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell...

In consequence of the rapid sale of the third edition of the "Manual," of which 2000 copies were printed in January last, a new edition has been called for in less than a twelvemonth. Even in this short interval some new facts of unusual importance in palæontology have come to light, or have been verified...