James Hutton and the History of Geology

James Hutton and the History of Geology
Author: Dennis R. Dean
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1992
Genre: Geology
ISBN: 9780801426667

Though the publication of Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1795) is usually regarded as the beginning of modern geology, it and other works by Hutton have rarely been studied in the original. Dean provides an accurate account of Hutton's major geological writings, in the light of his training and exper