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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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.
1839
At
Cambridge
, the
Cambridge Network
—which included
John Herschel
,
William Babbage
,
George Peacock
,
George Airy
,
Adam Sedgwick
, and
William Whewell
—lobbied to establish the formal study of science.