Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, 1979, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
xlv-xlvi
Charles Lyell
Standard Name: Lyell, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College
(founded in August 1829). |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir Charles Lyell
, and Sir William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Callcott | This article drew considerable response. It was an important element in the evidence offered for a theory of earthquakes which Charles Lyell
put forward in Principles of Geology, which he began to publish in... |
| Leisure and Society | Georgiana Chatterton | Her salon had sufficient standing for geologist Charles Lyell
to write with regret on 9 February 1843 when it turned out that celebrations for the Geological Society
Anniversary would clash with one of her parties. “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
| politics | Emily Davies | ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,... |
| Publishing | Julia Wedgwood | JW
published an article in Macmillan's Magazine entitled Lyell
on the Antiquity of Man. Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology had already been through several editions. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. |
| Textual Production | Mary Somerville | As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes |
Timeline
June 1830: Charles Lyell's first volume of The Principles...
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June 1830
Charles Lyell
's first volume of The Principles of Geology inaugurated his three-volume study demonstrating that the earth is several million years old.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
113
Sedgwick, William Thompson et al. A Short History of Science. Macmillan, 1939.
433
Jay, Mike. “Like Cooking a Dumpling”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2014, pp. 25-6. 26
1833-1835: Early periods of the earth's history were...
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1833-1835
Early periods of the earth's history were variously identified by Charles Lyell
and Adam Sedgwick
of England, and Roderick Impey Murchison
of Scotland.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
302
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
44-51
Porter, Roy. “Gentleman and Geology: The Emergence of A Scientific Career, 1660-1920”. Historical Journal, Vol.
21
, 1978, pp. 809-36. 819-21
1 July 1858: Papers on the theory of natural selection...
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1 July 1858
Papers on the theory of natural selection by Alfred Russel Wallace
and Charles Darwin
were read at a meeting of the Linnean Society
.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. “Introduction”. Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings, edited by Charles H. Smith, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 1-8.
3, 5
1859: Charles Lyell's address as president of the...
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1859
Charles Lyell
's address as president of the geological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) supported the new consensus that humans had lived among now-extinct mammals in a Europe that...
: Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary...
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Spring 1859
Papers announcing geologists' new evolutionary arguments for human antiquity appeared, scant months before Darwin
's Origin of Species was published.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
182
1864: Jules Verne published A Journey to the Centre...
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1864
Jules Verne
published A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; this French science-fiction novel was translated into English in 1872.
Gallagher, Edward Joseph et al. Jules Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. G. K. Hall, 1980.
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