James Hutton
Author : Alan McKirdy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Geologists
ISBN : 9781910682449
Author : Alan McKirdy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Geologists
ISBN : 9781910682449
Author : Edmond A. Mathez
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565845954
A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
Author : Dennis R. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521420488
Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography--the first in a generation--of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty-five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era. He had significant interaction with such well-known figures as James Parkinson, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Roderick Murchison, Charles Darwin, and Richard Owen. Dennis Dean, a well-known scholar of geology and the Victorian era, here places Mantell's career in its cultural context, employing original research in archives throughout the world, including the previously unexamined Mantell family papers in New Zealand.
Author : Jack Repcheck
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1458766624
There are four men whose life's work helped free science from the straitjacket of religion. Three of the four - Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Charles Darwin - are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The fourth, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown. A Scottish gentleman farmer, Hutton's observations on his small tract of land led him to a theory that directly contradicted biblical claims that the Earth was only 6,000 years old. Telling the story not only of Hutton, but of the rich intellectual milieu of the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age - from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin - The Man Who Found Time is an enlightening, engaging narrative about a little-known man and the science he established.
Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780765312389
In the lusty and turbulent world of Enlightenment Scotland, he set out to prove it.".
Author : Dennis Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1501733990
In James Hutton and the History of Geology, Dennis R. Dean provides a more accurate and complete account of Hutton's major geological writings than any that has hitherto appeared. He examines the growth and development of Hutton's thought in the light of his training and experience in medicine, agriculture, and philosophy, locating him within the intellectual milieux of Edinburgh at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : James Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : A. M. Celâl Şengör
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813712165
"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"
Author : Daniel Benham
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Moravians
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Author : James Hutton
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Crime
ISBN :