“Let the spectator substitute in his imaginationTranslation and commentary for the successively rising and sinking of the ground, the alternate growth and decay of vegetation, the appearance and disappearance of animal species, and he will have a lively conception of the grandeur of the spectacle.”

About Charles Lyell

Geologist • British

Sir Charles Lyell was a seminal British geologist who was a foremost proponent of uniformitarianism. His groundbreaking work, "Principles of Geology," argued that the Earth was shaped by the same slow-moving geological...