“And then his ideas were picked up by an Englishman, Charles Lyell, who was a good writer, and who wrote the principles of geology. Hutton's work was The Theory of the Earth.”
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Principles of Geology
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“mailboat coming behind them that might have the second volume of the principles of geology, and it does. And he soaks this up, and then by the time he gets down to Patagonia, he's paraphrasing Lyle.”
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