{"id":46,"date":"2020-01-28T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/?p=46"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:00:05","slug":"professor-richard-fortey-on-lyell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/2020\/01\/28\/professor-richard-fortey-on-lyell\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Richard Fortey on Lyell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2020\/01\/Richard-Fortey-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2020\/01\/Richard-Fortey-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/files\/2020\/01\/Richard-Fortey.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>\u00a0 Lyell expert and enthusiast<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Professor Richard Fortey is one of the most authoritative and engaging experts on the importance of Charles Lyell. A welcome supporter in the Lyell notebook campaign, he has recently been interviewed by Professor Brian Cox for the joint BBC and Royal Society series People of Science. Watch here for a persuasive account of Lyell&#8217;s scientific significance:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07qfrdl\">People of Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d also recommend Richard&#8217;s fascinating article on Lyell and deep geological time for the Geological Society (of which he is a past President): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geolsoc.org.uk\/Geoscientist\/Archive\/October-2011\/Charles-Lyell-and-deep-time\">Lyell and Deep Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Fortey is one of the most authoritative and engaging experts on the importance of Charles Lyell. A welcome supporter in the Lyell notebook campaign, he has recently been interviewed by Professor Brian Cox for the joint BBC and Royal Society series People of Science. Watch here for a persuasive account of Lyell&#8217;s scientific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnwkP-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lyell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}