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There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three,Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin,are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The third, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown, yet he profoundly changed our understanding of the earth, its age, and its dynamic forces.…
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Before I read this book, I had not even heard of James Hutton.
It turns out he was a learned amateur scientist, lawyer, doctor, entrepreneur, and farmer in Scotland who demonstrated before anyone else that the Earth is far older than imagined. I liked the fact that Hutton was lively, energetic, eccentric, and cheerful, with an infectious positive disposition. It must have been a real treat to know him.
His keen observations of the Scottish landscape enabled him to formulate a theory of geological evolution, positing that the Earth is continuously forming and reforming through the action of subterranean heat…
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