James Hutton and the History of Geology / / Dennis Dean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Dean, Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; 1. The Man and His Theory --; 2. “Theory of the Earth”: The Middle Phase --; 3. Theory of the Earth, 1795 --; 4. Hall, Werner, and Jameson --; 5. Playfair --; 6. Huttonian Controversy --; 7. Huttonians and Wernerians --; 8. The Triumph of Facts --; 9. Specific Problems --; 10. Lyell --; 11. Hutton and the Historians --; 12. Toward Modernity --; Appendix 1. Hutton and Black --; Appendix 2. Hutton and Toulmin --; Appendix 3. Hutton and Geological Time --; Appendix 4. The Authorship of Hutton’s “Abstract” --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501733994; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501733994
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dennis Dean.

In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.