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birth
Charles Lyell was born on November 14th, 1797 in Scotland. Lyell was also the first of ten children and was named right after his father Charles. Lyell's father was the first person to get him interested in the field of nature and then into the science intrest. -
Read, Read, Read,
Charles loved too read and learned to read at a very young he loved reading because of how many books his father had in a bookshelf. -
job for Charles Lyell
When Lyell was littel he said "I want to be a lawyer" but I think he became something better. -
School
Lyell attended Exeter College, Oxford in the year of 1816.Lyell eventually graduated December,1819 and took up law as his job and entering Lincoln's Inn. -
eyesight
In 1827 Lyell started to lose eyesight causing him to switch his profession to geology as a full time profession.He also gained fame and fortune due to this switch making him a very well known man. -
book
Charels Lyell wrote a book called the "Principles of Geology" and it excplanedd a lot about fossil fules did you know that If Charles Lyell hadn´t written his book "Principles of Geology" in 1830, The World economy wouldn´t have based in fossil fuels use. -
Charles's gets married
Charles gets married to the love of his life, Mary Horner and they spent their honeymoon in Switzerland ,Mary was also associated with geology. -
Lyell wrote two books
The exact date of this event isn't know because of how long ago this event took place.Charles traveled to places such as Canada and the United States, he wrote two books on his travels called Travels in North America (1845) and A Second Visit to the United States (1849). -
Medals
Charles Lyell was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society and he also was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866. -
Death
This is a man who helped Charles Darwin and his ideas. -
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The Three of Lyells Books
This was the time it took Charels lyell to write the 3 volumes of the princepls of geology
