García Cruz, Cándido Manuel (Author)
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Volume: 59, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 65-100
Google translate: To understand how James Hutton (1726-1797) may in fact be considered as one of the earliest precursor of the Gaia hypothesis, he examines his Theory of the Earth in the context of the three basic traditions of science: the agencies, the magical and mechanistic. For some authors, Hutton reportedly suggested in his theory that the earth was a superbody and that more study was correct for physiology. These alleged statements are merely a misinterpretation of huttoniano thought, since this author never did. However, Hutton has made a holistic view of who is closest to the mechanistic organic Alfred N. Whitehead that the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock, this is a clear precursor of Ludwig von Bertalanffy and his General Theory of Systems. Keywords James Hutton; eighteenth century; Theory of the Earth; epistemology; Gaia hypothesis; mechanistic organic; general theory of systems
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