This list was originally compiled in 2000 by John van Wyhe, then Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, and later continued by Diane Josefowicz, PhD, Science & Technology Editor, The Victorian Web.
Online resources
- Creation stories from the Bible
- Cuvier, Georges. Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, et sur les changements qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animal, 1825. In English: Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth, 1825.
- Lyell, Charles. Principles of Geology (chapters III & IV only)
- Lyell, Charles. The Student's Elements of Geology (ca.1870) (Gutenberg text)
- Lyell, Charles. Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia: With Geological Observations London, 1855 (PDF format).
- Lyell, Charles. Scientific Papers: The Progress of Geology; and Uniformity of Change.
- An anonymous review of Essay on the Theory of the Earth appeared in The British Review and London Critical Journal in 1813.
- Another review, also anonymously authored, appeared in the Edinburgh Review in January 1814.
Further reading
Bowler, Peter J. The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences. Norton, 1993.
Gillispie, C.C. Genesis and geology: a study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850, Cambridge, 1951.
Gohau, Gabriel. A History of Geology. Rutgers, 1990.
Laudan, Rachel. From Mineralogy to Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830. 1987.
Rudwick, Martin. Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes. 1997.
--. The Great Devonian Controversy. 1985.
--. The Meaning of Fossils. 1972.
--. Scenes from Deep Time. 1992.
Rupke, Nicholaas. Great chain of history: William Buckland and the English school of geology (1814-1849), Oxford, 1983.
Secord, James. "Introduction," Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology. Penguin Classics, 1997.
--. Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute. Princeton, 1986.
Torrens, H. S. The practice of British geology, 1750-1850. 2002.
Zittel, Karl A., von. Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie bis Ende des 19. Jahrhundert, 1899.
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