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As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I-the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean-but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes. Volume II is widely known because of its influence on Darwin, who took the book on his famous Beagle voyage and was stimulated by Lyell's extensive treatment of biological history and diversity.… (plus d'informations)
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Amid all the revolutions of the globe the economy of Nature has been uniform, and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents have been changed in all their part; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.
-Playfair, "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory," 374
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
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Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology was published in 12 different editions between 1830 and 1875. The 1st and 2nd editions were issued in three volumes (of which Volume 3 was shared by both editions), the 3rd-5th editions in four volumes, the 6th edition in three volumes, the 7th-9th editions in one volume apiece, and the 10th-12th editions in two volumes. The contents of Volume 1, and the portion of the book represented by it, thus varied considerably from edition to edition.
The publication history of Lyell's books is actually even more complicated than that description suggests. In the interest of simplicity, therefore, this LibraryThing "work" includes all copies of Principles of Geology, volume 1, regardless of edition. (In practice, most are probably 1st edition, which was issued as a facsimile reprint by the University of Chicago Press in the 1990s).
Please do not combine it with any other individual volume of Principles of Geology, with the complete work, or with the one-volume "Penguin Classics" abridgment edited by James Secord.
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As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I-the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean-but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes. Volume II is widely known because of its influence on Darwin, who took the book on his famous Beagle voyage and was stimulated by Lyell's extensive treatment of biological history and diversity.
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