Date: 1831
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: A mere sketch. Rudwick thinks that the book is once again Principles, and that it is floating upwards by its own lack of substance. He suggests that De la Beche is literally saying the book is "full of hot air". There isn't enough context to actually understand the sketch.
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: A mere sketch. Rudwick thinks that the book is once again Principles, and that it is floating upwards by its own lack of substance. He suggests that De la Beche is literally saying the book is "full of hot air". There isn't enough context to actually understand the sketch.
For more on De la Beche vs Lyell, see this page.
For more on Lyell himself, see his entry on the biography page.
Sources & further discussion:
First described in Rudwick, M. J. (1975). Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831. Isis, 66(4), 534-560. Link [www.journals.uchicago.edu]
Image yoinked from:
Rudwick (1975)
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