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Revising the revisions : James Hutton's reputation among geologists in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /

James Hutton's 'Theory of the Earth,' first published in 1785, was considered completely new by his contemporaries, different from anything that preceded it and widely discussed both in Hutton's own country and abroad, from St. Petersburg through Europe to New York. Yet a recent...

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Main Author:	Şengör, A. M. Celâl (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder, Colorado : Geological Society of America, 2020.
Series:	Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 216.
Subjects:	Hutton, James, > 1726-1797 > Influence. Geology > History > 18th century. Geology > History > 19th century.

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