Book ID: CBB000081945

James Hutton: Present and future (1999)

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Craig, G. Y. (Editor)
Hull, J. H. (Editor)


Geological Society


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: viii + 184 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: McIntyre, Donald B.: James Hutton's Edinburgh: A précis. Anderson, Don L.: A theory of the Earth: Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes. Wyllie, Peter J.: Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes. Schreyer, Werner: High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism. Watson, Andrew J.: Coevolution of the Earth's environment and life: Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle. Marvin, Ursula B.: Impacts from space: The implications for uniformitarian geology. Dalziel, Ian W.D.: Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end. Monro, S.K., Crosbie, A.J.: The Dynamic Earth project and the next millennium. Dott, Robert H.: Closing remarks for the Hutton bicentenary, Edinburgh. Dean, Dennis R.: Hutton scholarship 1992-1997.


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Authors & Contributors
McIntyre, Donald B.
Gregory F.W. Todd
Thomas Rossetter
Jordan, J. M.
Yearley, Steven
Withers, Charles W. J.
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Quaderni di Storia dell'Economia Politica
Natural History
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Publishers
University of Notre Dame
National Museums of Scotland Publishing
Geological Society of America
Concepts
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Geology
Earth sciences
Intellectual history
Limestone
Communication of scientific ideas
People
Hutton, James
Smith, Adam
Saussure, Horace Bénédict de
Rouelle, Guillaume-François
Black, Joseph
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
Ancient
Places
British Isles
Scotland
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