books.google.co.uk - As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science. In this first of three volumes, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) sets forth his powerful uniformitarian argument: processes now visibly acting in the natural world are essentially...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Principles_of_Geology.html?id=fq_FBPkmvc0C&q=transmutation&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePrinciples of Geology
