Name: Theory of the Earth With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1 (of 4)
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Theory of the Earth With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1

James Hutton

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279 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2007

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James Hutton FRSE was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism — a fundamental principle of geology — that explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton's work established geology as a science, and as a result he is referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology".

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Kathy

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June 9, 2017

This was good medicine for my brain. This Scottish geologist was an original thinker...remarkable for the time period. In defense of his Theory of Earth he describes opposing views somewhat comically, but there are more pages devoted to coal strata than I have read in one book heretofore.