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Ages in Chaos. James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time.(Book review)
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The Historian
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March 22, 2008| Author:
Kubicek, Robert
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Ages in Chaos. James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. By Stephen Baxter. (New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006. Pp. 256, $13.95.)
James Hutton [1726-1797] was a significant yet largely unheralded participant in the Scottish Enlightenment. Like many of his fellow luminaries, he was a polymath (agriculturalist, botanist, chemist, medical doctor, meteorologist, philosopher), but made his mark primarily as a geologist. Today scientists estimate the Earth to be ...
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Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time.(Book review)
The Historian
; ... At least this heroic portrayal of Hutton is common in the Anglo-American geological ... Among the main justifications for Hutton's exalted place in geology's annals ... one aim in this popular account of Hutton's life and work is to claim deep geological time [as] Hutton's wonderful and ...
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