Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Scotland, the son of well-to-do parents. When Lyell was less than a year old, his father moved his family to the south of England where he leased a house near the New Forest in Hampshire. Lyell spent his boyhood there,...

Charles Lyell was a scientist whose ideas were extremely important in the development of theories of geological and evolutionary change. His most influential textbook was Principles of Geology, published in 1833. Other well-known books written by Lyell...

The Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) established the uniformitarian view of geology. Charles Lyell, the eldest son of Charles Lyell, was born at Kinnordy, Forfar, the family estate, on Nov. 14, 1797. During his early childhood, the...

Table 3. Locomotive Performance Comparison: 1972 to 1997. Charles Lyell was a founder of modern British geology. One of his most important contributions to science concerned the rates at which the earth's...

Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Scotland, the son of well-todo parents. When Lyell was less than a year old, his father moved his family to the south of England where he leased a house near the New Forest in Hampshire. Lyell spent his boyhood there,...

1797-1875 English Geologist Charles Lyell is considered by many to be the father of modern geology. His masterwork, Principles of Geology, published between 1830 and 1833, added scientific rigor to geologic interpretations of rocks and fossils. Lyell...

Scottish geologist Charles Lyell was a scientist whose ideas were important to the development of theories of geological and evolutionary change. Lyell's most influential textbook was Principles of Geology, published in 1833. Other well-known...

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, KT, (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875) was a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Angus, the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, also named...

Thomas A. McCready is Professor, and Neil C. Schwertman is Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Chico, CA 95929-0525 (E-mail: nschwertman@csuchico.edu). The authors thank the reviewers for their helpful comments and especially the Editor and Associate Editor for their valuable suggestions...

Lyell in America: Transatlantic Geology, 1841-1853. By Leonard G. Wilson. (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 429. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5797-X.) Following his fine biography of the eminent nineteenth-century geologist Charles Lyell from his birth in 1797 through...