James Hutton studied law and medicine and was not a good writer — he initially became a farmer but ended up becoming a ...

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

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 ...

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 birth of modern geology is said to have started in the 18th century. The introduction of new concepts and thoughts about the Earth was a brave thing to do. Why is that? Because the believeth 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 ...

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) ...