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  1. Charles lyell and the uniformity principle.Giovanni Camardi - 1999 - Biology and Philosophy 14 (4):537-560.
    The theoretical system Lyell presented in 1830 was composed of three requirements or principles: 1) the Uniformity Principle which states that past geological events must be explained by the same causes now in operation; 2) the Uniformity of Rate Principle which states that geological laws operate with the same force as at present; 3) the Steady-state Principle which states that the earth does not undergo any directional change. The three principles form a single thesis called uniformitarianism which has been repeatedly (...)
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  • Nebular Contraction and the Expansion of Naturalism.J. H. Brooke - 1979 - British Journal for the History of Science 12 (2):200-211.
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  • William Hopkins and the shaping of Dynamical Geology: 1830–1860.Crosbie Smith - 1989 - British Journal for the History of Science 22 (1):27-52.
    ‘Hitherto want of accuracy and definiteness have often been brought as a charge against geology, and sometimes only with too much justice’, wrote Archibald Geikie in a review of Sir Roderick Murchison'sSiluria(1867). ‘We seem now to be entering, however, upon a new era, when there will be infused into geological methods and speculation, some of the precision of the exact sciences’. Geikie's judgement echoed an appeal made some thirty years earlier by William Hopkins (1793–1866) that the science of geology needed (...)
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  • Darwin's search for a theory of the earth: symmetry, simplicity and speculation.Frank H. T. Rhodes - 1991 - British Journal for the History of Science 24 (2):193-229.
    1990 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's first major scientific theory. The paper, first presented by Darwin to the Geological Society of London on 7 March 1838, was entitled ‘On the Connexion of Certain Volcanic Phenomena and on the Formation of Mountain-Chains and the Effects of Continental Elevations.’ The paper was a remarkable attempt to develop a global tectonic synthesis. It was the culmination of a period of intensive geological activity by Darwin – then twenty-nine – (...)
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