Charles Lyell and the Principles of the History of Geology

British Journal for the History of Science 9 (2):91-103 (1976)
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History is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the material and intellectual conditions of man; it inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the life and mind of mankind.

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