It's been called the most important scientific book ever. A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830, shook prevailing views of how Earth had been formed.

No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...

THE appearance of a new edition of the “Principles of Geology” would mark a fitting time to pass in review the state of Geologic Science, to count up what has been added to the treasury of truth, and ...

ALTHOUGH it is generally recognised that the new physical chemistry has far-reaching applications in geology, no less than in other branches of science, little has yet been done to bring this home ...

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyells Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by ...

In Civil Engineering practice, engineering geology plays a vital role. For an efficient and appropriate judgment in the analysis and execution of any project, it is extremely essential not only to ...