Article ID: CBB000021269

A comparison of James Hutton's Principles of knowledge and Theory of the earth (1978)

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Description “James Hutton presented his Theory of the earth as an induction from fieldwork justified by Aristotle's well-known teleology. Yet he practiced what he did not preach and applied a new epistemology that he had worked out in his Principles of knowledge.”


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Authors & Contributors
García Cruz, Cándido Manuel
Sengör, A. M. Celâl
Carozzi, Marguerite
Yearley, Steven
Repcheck, Jack
Pearson, P. N.
Concepts
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Geology
Earth sciences
Petrology
Intellectual history
Biosphere
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
Places
Scotland
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