Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes... 49 KB (5,838 words) - 17:19, 24 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (461 words) - 16:26, 24 April 2024 |
as an eminent geologist, whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's concept of gradual geological change. Publication of his journal of... 162 KB (15,880 words) - 14:19, 28 March 2024 |
Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) was a geologist and populariser of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell may also refer to: Charles Henry Lyell (1875–1918), Liberal... 603 bytes (108 words) - 14:02, 11 January 2017 |
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)... 2 KB (286 words) - 13:22, 21 November 2021 |
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... 6 KB (283 words) - 20:21, 31 January 2024 |
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... 5 KB (502 words) - 08:06, 23 June 2023 |
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... 16 KB (1,689 words) - 00:20, 26 April 2024 |
Uniformitarianism (section Lyell) later refined by scientist John Playfair and popularised by geologist Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology in 1830. Today, Earth's history is considered... 35 KB (4,142 words) - 05:50, 3 November 2023 |
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... 14 KB (1,546 words) - 09:41, 26 March 2024 |
Lyell (1850–1926) Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943) Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell (1939–2017) Lyell baronets of Kinnordy "No. 28849"... 2 KB (251 words) - 16:44, 12 December 2023 |
novelist Charles Dickens, and the celebrated wit Sydney Smith. The scien- tists included telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, geol- ogists Charles Lyell and... 7 KB (768 words) - 12:51, 10 February 2024 |
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... 5 KB (609 words) - 17:56, 26 March 2024 |
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... 6 KB (722 words) - 22:23, 18 July 2023 |
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... 164 KB (18,812 words) - 10:27, 27 April 2024 |
describing erosion and chemical weathering. Between 1830 and 1833, Charles Lyell published three volumes of Principles of Geology, which describes the... 30 KB (3,699 words) - 16:39, 28 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (413 words) - 18:03, 24 November 2022 |
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)... 13 KB (1,552 words) - 04:56, 21 March 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,272 words) - 12:21, 16 April 2024 |
theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell. Gould ranks the development of the concept "deep time," which involved... 16 KB (2,064 words) - 16:41, 12 February 2024 |
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... 93 KB (9,778 words) - 23:49, 24 April 2024 |