Sixty-two examples of Hutton's writing, collected at ten-page intervals from the first volume of his 1795 Theory of the Earth, are the basis of this study. James Hutton (1726–1797) described the ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Noted Turkish geologist, and member of the American Philosophical Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Dr. A.M. Celâl Şengör has taken on the Herculean task of ...

Hutton's Rock is where the founding father of geology arrived at his theory of how and when the world was formed.

In this engaging account of scientific discovery, Repcheck (an acquiring editor at Norton) aims to elevate the little-known Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726–1797) into the lofty company of ...

THE first ordinary meeting this session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh was held on November 3 and took the form of a commemoration of the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of James ...

James Hutton studied law and medicine and was not a good writer — he initially became a farmer but ended up becoming a celebrated geologist View of cliffs and water of the Firth of Forth from the ...

ON November 16, the centenary occurs of the birth of the distinguished geologist Frederick Wollaston Hutton, who together with Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829-84), Sir John F. J. von Haast (1824-87) ...