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James Hutton - The Founder of Modern Geology

James Hutton - The Founder of Modern Geology


We're pleased to announce the arrival of a new title from National Museums Scotland.

In anticipation of the tercentenary of James Hutton's birth in 1726 a new and greatly
expanded re-write of the 2012 book has been published.


Scientists currently think the Earth is four and a half billion years old but until the eighteenth
century the Christian world firmly believed in its creation about 4000 BC. James Hutton (1726-97)
was the man whose pioneering fieldwork proved that this was not so. A leading figure in the
Scottish Enlightenment, he not only established that the Earth is immensley old, but in the
process also saw the possibility of both evolution and natural selection - fifteen years before
Charles Darwin was born.

Price: £16.50