Fact 1
Sir Charles Lyell was born on14 November 1797 in Scotland and died on 22 February 1875.
Fact 2
He is well known as the writer of Principles of Geology, which popularized James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the notion that the earth was shaped by the same developments that are still in action today.
Fact 3
Lyell was also one of the first to consider that the world is older than 300 million years, judging from its geological differences.
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