As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I—the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean—but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes. Volume II is widely known because of its influence on Darwin, who took the book on his famous Beagle voyage and was stimulated by Lyell's extensive treatment of biological history and diversity.
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IN our first volume we treated of the changes which have taken place in the inorganic world within the historical era, and we must next turn our attention to those now in progress in the animate creation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subaqueous strata, aqueous agents, inorganic causes, botanical provinces, antagonist power, terrestrial quadrupeds, subterranean movements, animate creation, habitable surface, calcareous matter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Holland, South America, West Indies, Captain Beechey, Great Britain, New Guinea, United States, North America, Port Royal, Black Sea, Captain King, Cape of Good Hope, Straits of Magellan, New Hebrides, Quarterly Review, West Indian, Account of the Arctic Regions, Caribbean Sea, Marcel de Serres, Van Diemen's Land New!
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subaqueous strata, aqueous agents, inorganic causes, botanical provinces, antagonist power, terrestrial quadrupeds, subterranean movements, animate creation, habitable surface, calcareous matter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Holland, South America, West Indies, Captain Beechey, Great Britain, New Guinea, United States, North America, Port Royal, Black Sea, Captain King, Cape of Good Hope, Straits of Magellan, New Hebrides, Quarterly Review, West Indian, Account of the Arctic Regions, Caribbean Sea, Marcel de Serres, Van Diemen's Land New!
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