James Hutton and the history of geology /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dean, Dennis R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Hutton, James, > 1726-1797.
Hutton, James, > 1726-1797
Geology.
Geology
Géologie.
geology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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