Desde Richard de Bury (1344) hasta Charles Lyell (1830). Algunas consideraciones históricas sobre el uso del término ‘geología’

The first reference about the use of the term geology is found in Richard de Bury, in the mid-fourteenth century, although he did not define it. This word has been used over almost five hundred years by numerous authors, including U. Aldrovandi (1603), M. P. Escholt (1657), R. Lovell (1661), F. Sessa (1687), E. Warren (1690), D. Clüver (1700), B. Martin (1735), J.-A. de Luc (1778), and H. B. de Saussure (1779), without fully specifying its meaning, with a great vagueness as a concept, and without clearly defining its subject matter: Geology as some book titles, or ideas such as on what is dug out of the earth, discourse concerning the earth, general doctrine of the earth, or science of continents, were duly neither developed nor explained by the authors. Among the fathers of geology as a science, according to their works contents, an implicit meaning is found in G. Arduino (1760) and J. Hutton (1795), and also in other naturalists as B. Faujas de Saint-Fond (1803). In the first decades of the nineteenth century, S. Breislak (1811) and W. Phillips (1815) defined the descriptive, historical and explanatory aspects of geology, and C. Lyell (1830) laid down accurately the scope and aim of geology as a historical science, with a methodology based on Actualism-Uniformitarianism.