Lyels biography

In the main works. The Foreign Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences adhered to the evolutionary theory of Ch. In the fundamental work of the “Fundamentals of Geology”, because more than a third of his life, he spent traveling around Europe and North America. At the end of his life, he published the work “Antiquity of man” with elements of archeology.

Modern illustrated encyclopedia. Rosman Press, M. Lyell Lyell, Sir Charles-, English scientist, originally geologist. His works had an impact on archeology in two basic issues.

In Principiples of Geology, the year of “Principles of Geology”, Layell established that geological events must be explained by processes that continue until now, and not by worldwide floods and other disasters, this made it possible to increase the age of the world outside the traditional years. The book “Antiquity of Man” “The antiquity of man”, written 30 years later, considers the ancient history of mankind using the principles of Darwinism against the background of the development of geological processes.

Quoted by ed. Archaeological Dictionary. Translation from English G. Charles Laeel was born on November 14 in the county of Forfar, in Scotland, in the father of Kinnordi. In the fourth year of his life, Lyel learned to read, and at the eighth entered Dr. Davis's school in the city of Ringwood. In Ringwood, Laeel studied reading, writing and grammar, and in the ninth year he was transferred to the school of Dr.

Radcliffe in Salisbury, fashionable at the time where the sons of local aunts were studied by Latin. Having studied for two years at the Radcliffe school, Lyel was transferred to Dr. Balei school in Midgerst. Having parted with the school, Layel entered the University of Oxford, where he studied the right. In Oxford, natural science played a very subordinate role, but it was not completely abandoned.

Among other things, lectures on geology were also read here. Gradually, geology took a dominant place in his classes. Layel began to take whole travels with geological goal. So, in the year he visited the island of Staffa, where he examined the Fingalov cave, glorified among the aesthetes with Ossian songs, among geologists - wonderful basalt pillars, a very curious geological phenomenon.

In the year, the eye disease made him quit legal classes for a while and go with his father to Rome. In the year, he was elected secretary of the geological society. He decided to write a textbook of geology, an ordinary compilation textbook, a brief set of materials accumulated in science, of course, otherwise covered than that of previous researchers. It turned out, however, that it is impossible to write compilation, but it is possible and should do something more.

In the year, he took with his friend Murchison a long geological excursion to France, Italy and Sicily. The main goal of this expedition was the closest acquaintance with the precipitation of the tertile era. According to the existing theory, there was a gap, a break between the tertiary and modern era. His studies completely destroyed the previous views.

Comparing tertiary fossils with modern ones, he concluded that they represent one inextricable whole: tertiary precipitation, climate, and the population quietly move into modern ones. Nothing speaks in favor of enormous general disasters that break the chain of phenomena. The first volume of the "main principles of geology" Lyel was released in the year, the second - in M, the third - in m.

Layel proved that huge fluctuations in the climate can occur due to changes in the outline of the continents and seas, that such changes were really made during geological history and are consistent with coups in the climate, which is evidenced by the same story. The activity of water as a geological agent was first clarified by Lyel in its present volume and significance.

Layel built a historical geology - an essay on the changes experienced by the earth's crust from ancient times to the present. This was the first detailed study and the unit of the huge department in the history of our planet: the scheme established by Lyel Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene has survived to this day with changes only in details. Lyel's book was a huge success. In England, the views of Lyel spread the most quickly and recognized.

For young, beginning scientists, his book was a real revelation. In London, he was offered to give lectures on geology in the Royal College. In the year, Lyel received a gold medal from the London Royal Society for the "main principles of geology", and 24 years later it honored with its highest award. In the year, he was granted the knights and from that moment it was no longer just Charles Lyel, but the Sir Charles Lyel; In the year he received the title of baronet.

In the year, Oxford University elected him an honorary doctor of rights, and in the year of the Paris Academy, which enlisted Lyel about five years ago, as a heretics and unnecessary, she changed his anger for mercy and accepted the reformer of geology as a corresponding member. At the end of his life, Lyel, who did not lose their ability to work, was carried away by a completely new question for geologists - about the appearance of man on Earth.Layel traveled to France, Germany, Italy in search of traces of an ancient person and wrote about the results of his studies by the sensational book "Geological Evidence of Man's Antiquity".

He was buried in Westminster Abbey, with honors. Next, read:.