James Hutton and the History of Geology /

James Hutton and the History of Geology / / 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 medi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Dean, Dennis,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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