Charles Darwin, Geologist

Abstract

While the title of Sandra Herbert's scientific biography of Charles Darwin will generate no surprise among scholars of 19th century science, the audience for whom this volume is clearly intended, it will for those who still think of Darwin's primary achievement as 'biological'.It is worth noting, therefore, the opening lines of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, perhaps the single most important influence on Darwin during his formative, Beagle, years: Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes.

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