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Principles of Geology: or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of GeologyLyell, Charles, Sir

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Principles of Geology: or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology

Name: Principles of Geology: or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
Author: Lyell, Charles, Sir

Lyell, Charles, Sir

Geology

If I am asked whether the "Principles" or the "Manual" should be studied
first, I feel much the same difficulty in answering the question as if a
student should inquire whether he ought to take up first a treatise on
Chemistry, or one on Natural Philosophy, subjects sufficiently distinct,
yet inseparably connected. On the whole, while I have endeavored to make
each of the two treatises, in their present form, quite independent of
the other, I would recommend the reader to study first the modern
changes of the earth and its inhabitants as they are discussed in the
present volume, proceeding afterwards to the classification and
interpretation of the monuments of more remote ages.


  CHARLES LYELL.

   _11 Harley Street, London_, May 24, 1853.


_Dates of the successive Editions of the "Principles" and "Elements" (or
Manual) of Geology, by the Author._

  Principles, 1st vol. in octvo, published in               Jan. 1830.
  ----------,  2d vol.   do.   do.                          Jan. 1832.
  ----------, 1st vol. 2d edition in octavo                      1832.
  ----------,  2d vol. 2d edition do.                       Jan. 1833.
  ----------,  3d vol. 1st edition do.                      May, 1833.
  ----------, New edition (called the 3d) of the whole work
                in 4 vols. 12mo                             May, 1834.
  ----------, 4th edition, 4 vols. 12mo                    June, 1835.
  ----------, 5th do.  do.  do.                             Mar. 1837.
  Elements, 1st edition in one vol                         July, 1838.
  Principles, 6th do.  3 vols. 12mo                        June, 1840.
  Elements, 2d edition in 2 vols. 12mo                     July, 1841.
  Principles, 7th edition in one vol. 8vo                   Feb. 1847.
  ----------, 8th edition in one vol. 8vo                   May, 1850.
  Manual of Elementary Geology (or "Elements," 3d edition)
            in one vol. 8vo                                 Jan. 1851.
  Manual, 4th edition, one vol. 8vo                         Jan. 1852.
  Principles, 9th edition, now published in one vol. 8vo   June, 1853.




  ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS
  OF
  THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.


  BOOK I. (CHAPTERS I. TO XIII.)

  HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY, WITH A SERIES OF
    ESSAYS TO SHOW THAT THE MONUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT STATE OF THE
    EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS, WHICH THIS SCIENCE INTERPRETS, CAN
    ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD BY A PREVIOUS ACQUAINTANCE WITH TERRESTRIAL
    CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS, BOTH IN THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC
    WORLDS.

  CHAPTER I.
  Geology defined--Its relation to other Sciences                  Page 1

  CHAPTER II.
  Oriental and Egyptian Cosmogonies--Doctrines of the Greeks
    and Romans bearing on Geology                                       4

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