Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Gatehouse Kinnordy House Scotland
Old photograph of the gatehouse for Kinnordy House near Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, was born in Kinnordy on 14 November 1797. He was the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute: it was he who first exposed his son to the study of nature. Charles became a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism, the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today. Principles of Geology also challenged theories popularized by George Cuvier, which were the most accepted and circulated ideas about geology in England at the time. Lyell was also one of the first to believe that the world is older than 300 million years, on the basis of its geological anomalies. Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.
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