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    Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes...
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  • Captain Charles Antony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell, VC, 2nd Bt (14 June 1913 – 27 April 1943) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
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    as an eminent geologist, whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's concept of gradual geological change. Publication of his journal of...
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  • Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) was a geologist and populariser of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell may also refer to: Charles Henry Lyell (1875–1918), Liberal...
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  • Leonard Lyell Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943), Victoria Cross recipient; son of Charles Henry Lyell Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell (1939–2017)...
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    nearby Lyell Canyon is named after Charles Lyell, a well-known 19th century geologist. The peak had one of the last remaining glaciers in Yosemite, Lyell Glacier...
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    alongside her husband, Charlotte desired higher education. By 1831, Charles Lyell (1797–1875), a friend of the Murchisons with whom they had worked and...
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  • Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, DL (27 March 1939 – 11 January 2017) was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord Lyell...
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  • Charles Lyell (1767–1849) was a Scottish botanist, known also as a translator of Dante. Lyell was born on 7 March 1767, at Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland...
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    later refined by scientist John Playfair and popularised by geologist Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology in 1830. Today, Earth's history is considered...
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    is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell that was first published in 3 volumes from 1830 to 1833. Lyell used the theory of uniformitarianism...
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    Horner Lyell (9 October 1808 – 24 April 1873) was a conchologist and geologist. She was married to the famed British geologist Charles Lyell and assisted...
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  • Lyell (1850–1926) Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943) Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell (1939–2017) Lyell baronets of Kinnordy "No. 28849"...
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  • novelist Charles Dickens, and the celebrated wit Sydney Smith. The scien- tists included telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, geol- ogists Charles Lyell and...
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  • appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) and was first used to refer to the increasing status and...
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  • Evidences of the Antiquity of Man is a book written by British geologist, Charles Lyell in 1863. The first three editions appeared in February, April, and November...
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    incorporates extracts from related correspondence of Herschel with Charles Lyell. Babbage put forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight...
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    On the Origin of Species (category Books by Charles Darwin)
    naturalist and geologist. He read Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and from the first stop ashore, at St. Jago, found Lyell's uniformitarianism a key to...
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  • describing erosion and chemical weathering. Between 1830 and 1833, Charles Lyell published three volumes of Principles of Geology, which describes the...
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  • by Charles Gould in 1863 after geologist Charles Lyell, a supporter of Charles Darwin. Mount Lyell was also the common short name of the Mount Lyell Mining...
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    Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. To the north along the edge of the lunar mare is the crater Franz. The region of terrain to the east of Lyell is named Palus...
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    overcome his stammer with lessons here. There is a Green Plaque. Sir Charles Lyell (lawyer, author and geologist). Lived at No.11 (which is now No.73)...
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    rocks. Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book, Principles of Geology, in 1830. This book, which influenced the thought of Charles Darwin, successfully...
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    countries for many years to come. Even the accurate assessment of geologist Charles Lyell did not change this, who as early as 1863 after a visit to Fuhlrott...
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    James Hutton in Theory of the Earth (1795) and embellished upon by Charles Lyell in Principles of Geology (1830). There are several basic types of cross-cutting...
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    term in an evolutionary context relating to gaps in the fossil record. Charles Lyell employed the term a few years later in 1851 in his third edition of...
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  • theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell. Gould ranks the development of the concept "deep time," which involved...
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  • million years ago (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός...
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    times with Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII, Charles XIII, Charles XIV and Charles XV. Charles I of England (1600–1649) is followed by Charles II of England...
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  • like the anatomists Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen, and the geologist Charles Lyell, was intense. The debate over them was an important stage in the history...
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