Out of Print Geology Books for sale - Also including books on paleontology, mineralogy, mining, explorations, early surveys, volcanology, seismology and meteoritics. The Great Devonian Controversy - A review of the book by Martin Rudwick about this 19th century geological controversy. Bartleby.com: Sir Charles Lyell - Includes etexts of scientific papers, "The Progress of Geology" and "Uniformity of Change". HESS: History of the Earth Sciences Society - International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History. GSA History of Geology Division - Web site includes organization information, as well as several papers on important geologists and their work. Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth - Mathematical details of Lord Kelvin's young earth calculation, from a course in applied fourier analysis. In PDF format.