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When was the first volume of Principles of Geology published?
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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell, detail of a replica in oil by Lowes Cato Dickinson, 1883; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology was published in July 1830.1