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Charles Lyell. Princípios de Geologia, de Charles Lyell, publicado entre 1830 e 1833, foi um dos livros mais importantes para Darwin desenvolver sua teoria. Foi lançado durante a viagem do “Beagle” e Darwin o leu à medida que a viagem progredia, usando-o como um quadro teórico para sustentar suas observações.
Lyell’s version of geology came to be known as uniformitarianism, because of his fierce insistence that the processes that alter the Earth are uniform through time. Like Hutton, Lyell viewed the history of Earth as being vast and directionless. And the history of life was no different. Image courtesy of Roberto Bertero.
28 de mai. de 2019 · Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was heavily influenced by Lyell’s book Principles of Geology – a description of how the Earth was formed by forces that are still at work today. While traveling aboard a British ship, the HMS Beagle_,_ Darwin applied Lyell’s principles of uniformitarianism to the study of volcanic rocks on the Canary ...
Charles Lyell was one of the most important scientists in the development of geology in the 19 th century. Lyell took some of the brilliant, yet fairly convoluted work of James Hutton and expressed his ideas in a form that was easier to understand.
Sir Charles Lyell, (born Nov. 14, 1797, Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scot.—died Feb. 22, 1875, London, Eng.), Scottish geologist. While studying law at the University of Oxford, he became interested in geology and later met such notable geologists as Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier. Lyell came to believe that there were natural (as ...
Para se inspirar, Lyell voltou cinquenta anos no tempo, para as idéias de um fazendeiro escocês chamado James Hutton. Em 1790, Hutton havia argumentado que a Terra não era transformada por catástrofes inimagináveis, mas por mudanças imperceptivelmente lentas, muitas das quais podemos ver ao nosso redor hoje. Chuva destrói montanhas ...
Charles Lyell. 1797-1875. English Geologist. C harles 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 also became the first to propose the division of the Cenozoic era (the ...
