Charles Lyell by Sir Edward Bailey - 1962

Edinburgh`: Thomas Nelson, 1962 Endpapers free of inscriptions with clean contents

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875), showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed."

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962 8vo (21 cm), X, 214 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "In this volume Sir Edward Bailey describes life and work of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)., showing, how by his many excursion in Britain, Europe and North America, Lyell gained a wide and varied personal knowledge of the features of the landscape. Lyell's chief work, the 'Principles of Geology', which attempted to explain the changes of the earth's surface in pas ages be reference to causes operating at the present day, had a profound affect on scientific thought in th 19th century. This work is described in detail and Lyell's other contributions to the study of the earth are analyzed and their importance assesed."