James Hutton, Scottish geologist, 1787 (1877). Hutton (1726-1797) working at a rock face with a geological hammer. In 1794 he published his Theory of the Earth, in which he put forward the uniformitarian theory of geology, asserting that the Earth was much older than generally accepted at the time. After an etching by John Kay. | |
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