Reviews: Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the Earth: The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity: How James Hutton rocked the world

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Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the Earth by Stephen Baxter

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, GBP 16.99

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck

Simon & Schuster, GBP 15.99

NOT five minutes' walk from this newspaper office, on St John's Hill in Edinburgh, tucked incongruously off a flight of concrete steps between a multi-storey car park and a housing development, a small circular garden comprises some shrubs, a cluster of disparate boulders and a sandstone centrepiece, carved with the legend: "We find no vestige of a ...

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