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Revising the Revisions: James Hutton’s Reputation among Geologists in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2020)

Sengör, A. M. Celâl (Author)

Geological Society of America

ISBN: 9780813712161

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 188
Language: English

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Explanation; hypotheses; theories Communication of scientific ideas Intellectual history Earth sciences Historical geology; theory of the earth Geology 19th century 18th century Hutton, James

"James Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1785, was considered completely new by his contemporaries, different from anything that preceded it, and widely discussed both in Hutton's own country and abroad-from St. Petersburg through Europe to New York. Yet a recent trend among some historians of geology is to characterize Hutton's work as already behind the times in the late eighteenth century and remembered only because some later geologists found it convenient to represent it as a precursor of the prevailing opinions of the day. Painstakingly researched, richly referenced, and full of interesting stories, this Memoir shatters that line of thinking and restores Hutton's standing as the father of modern geology, his ideas fully relevant to the geological problems of his day"

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Review Gregory Todd (2022) Review of "Revising the Revisions: James Hutton’s Reputation among Geologists in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". Archives of Natural History (pp. 437-438). unapi

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