Lyell and Darwin, Geologists by Martin Js Rudwick
The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance in the second quarter of the 19th century because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclusions to the limit. While adopting their goal of reconstructing the contingent history of the earth, he claimed that the physical processes observable in action in the present could explain far more about the past than was commonly believed, and that it was unnecessary to postulate occasional catastrophic events of still greater intensity. Far more controversial was Lyell's further claim that the earth and its life had always been in a stable steady state, rather than developing in a broadly linear or directional fashion. 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 on speciation and other biological problems.-
Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century England
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Holy Land Topography and Travel at the Time of the Crusades
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Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics
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Re-enacting the Past
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Studies on the Formation of Christian Armenia
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Fire from Heaven
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Education et culture dans l'Occident medieval
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History and Literature of Byzantium in the 9th-10th Centuries
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Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond
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Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire
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Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern
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Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects
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Byzantium, Latin Romania and the Mediterranean
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Workers, Women, and Social Change in Poland, 1870-1939
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Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics
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Ming Taizu (r. 1368-98) and the Foundation of the Ming Dynasty in China
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Britain, France and International Commerce
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Related Worlds - Studies in Jewish and Arab Ancient and Early Medieval History
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Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
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Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts
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Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe
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Humanism, Venice, and Women
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Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers
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The Biological Standard of Living in Europe and America, 1700–1900
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Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean
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Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century
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Gratian and the Schools of Law, 1140-1234
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Politics and Institutions in Capetian France
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Dubrovnik: A Mediterranean Urban Society, 1300–1600
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Geographie et culture. La representation de lespace du VIe au XIIe siecle
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East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity
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Early Islamic Theology: The Mu`tazilites and al-Ash`ari
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Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy
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Etudes sur la France Capétienne
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Music, Science, Philosophy
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European Approaches to North America, 1450–1640
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Peiresc's Orient
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The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine
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Power and Its Problems in Carolingian Europe
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Studies on the Melitian Schism in Egypt (AD 306-335)
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Music and Musicians in 16th-Century Florence
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Ibn Sina and his Influence on the Arabic and Latin World
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Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the Medieval West
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Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam
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Religion, Law and Learning in Classical Islam
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Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages
- Reason and Experience
'Rudwick's books The meaning of fossils (1972), The great Devonian controversy (1985) and Scenes from deep time (1992) are already classicsIt is very convenient that his shorter and less known papers are now made available in these Variorum reprint collections.' Archives of Natural History
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860789598 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860789594 |
| Title | Lyell and Darwin, Geologists |
| Author | Martin Js Rudwick |
| Series | Variorum Collected Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2005-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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