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Lyell's contemporary, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler, showed with his synthesis of urea that the stuff of life is not a magical gel but ordinary compounds following the laws of chemistry.
Less than a century after Johnson, the geologist Sir Charles Lyell showed that today's Earth could have been sculpted by everyday erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes acting in the past over immense spans of time.
Two centuries before Lyell, physician William Harvey showed the human body to be a machine that uses hydraulics and other mechanical principles.