"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Science and historiography of science: The case of geology
Revisionist claims concerning Hutton's place in geology
The British Empire
France
The Russian Empire
Germany
Austrian Empire (Austro-Hungary after 1867)
Switzerland
Italy
The United States of America
Discussion.
ISBN
9780813712161 ((hardcover))
0813712165
LCCN
2020043127
OCLC
1198990033
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