Lyell and Darwin, Geologists: Studies in the Earth Sciences in the Age of Reform

ISBN-13: 9781138375666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 334 str.

MARTIN J.S. RUDWICK

Opis

The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclusions to the limit. His younger friend Charles Darwin first made his name as a Lyellian geologist; Darwin's early work in geology, studied here, provided important foundations for his later and more famous research.

Recenzje

'Rudwick's books The meaning of fossils (1972), The great Devonian controversy (1985) and Scenes from deep time (1992) are already classics. It is very convenient that his shorter and less known papers are now made available in these Variorum reprint collections.' Archives of Natural History

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Notes on the articles; Bibliography. Lyell's Concept of Uniformity: Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell; Lyell and the Principles of Geology. The Making of the Principles: Poulett Scrope on the volcanos of the Auvergne: Lyellian time and political economy; Lyell on Etna, and the antiquity of the earth; Historical analogies in the early geological work of Charles Lyell; Charles Lyell's dream of a statistical palaeontology. The Reception of the Principles: Caricature as a Source for the History of Science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831; Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797-1875) and his London lectures on geology, 1832-33. Darwin as a Geologist: Charles Darwin in London: the Integration of Public and Private Science; Darwin and Glen Roy: a 'Great Failure' in Scientific Method?; Index.

O autorze

Martin J.S. Rudwick is Professor Emeritus of History of Science at the University of California San Diego, USA, and the University of Cambridge, UK.