Lyell and Darwin, geologists : studies in the earth sciences in the age of reform /
Rudwick, M. J. S.
Aldershot : Ashgate Variorum,
c2005.
Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell -- Lyell and the Principles of geology -- Poulett Scrope on the volcanoes of the Auvergne: Lyellian time and political economy -- Lyell on Etna, and the antiquity of the earth -- Historical analogies in the geological work of Charles Lyell -- Charles Lyell's dream of a statistical palaeontology -- Caricature as a source for the history of science: De le Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831 -- Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797-1875) and his London lectures on geology, 1832-33 -- Charles Darwin in London: the integration of public and private science -- Darwin and Glen Roy: a "great failure" in a scientific method?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Geologists
Geology