James Hutton : the genius of time / Ray Perman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perman, Ray, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hutton, James, 1726-1797.

Hutton, James.

Geologists--Scotland--Biography.

Geologists.

Scotland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. He cared more about fossils ...

2. Not ten days in which I was not flogged

3. He shall not commit the filthy crimes ...

4. All that ... is absurd and false

5. More keen of martial toil ...

6. I shall die like a cock ...

7. Turning soot into gold

8. Hutton dreaded nothing so much as ignorance

9. Wrote by the finger of God

10. Lord pity the arse that's clagged to a head

11. Look with a kinder eye towards me

12. A Junto of Jacobites and Tories

13. The operation of subterraneous fire ...

14. Time ... is to nature endless

15. His ideas are magnificent ...

16. ... having found the most perfect evidence

17. I was much weakened by it

18. In some respects a foreign tongue

19. The doctor will not easily submit

20. Death only as a passage

21. Ages may be required

22. Hutton every day strikes me with astonishment

23. What Newton achieved ...

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781780277851

1780277857

OCLC:

1338667594