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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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Geological Society of America,
2020.
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| Series: | Memoir (Geological Society of America) ;
216. |
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Table of Contents:
- Science and historiography of science: The case of geology
- Revisionist claims concerning Hutton's place in geology
- The British Empire
- France
- The Russian Empire
- Germany
- Austrian Empire (Austro-Hungary after 1867)
- Switzerland
- Italy
- The United States of America
- Discussion.