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100 1 $aRepcheck, Jack.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003055435
245 14 $aThe man who found time :$bJames Hutton and the discovery of the earth's antiquity /$cJack Repcheck.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bPerseus,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a247 pages :$bmap ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tLooking So Far Into the Abyss of Time -- $g2.$tFirst Came Adam and Eve, Then Came Cain and Abel ... -- $g3.$tAuld Reekie -- $g4.$tThe Storm Before the Calm -- $g5.$tYouthful Wanderings -- $g6.$tThe Paradox of the Soil -- $g7.$tThe Athens of the North -- $g8.$tThe Eureka Moments -- $g9.$tHutton's Boswell's -- $g10.$tThe Huttonian Revolution.
520 1 $a"There are four men whose contributions helped free science from the straightjacket of theology. Three of the four - Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Charles Darwin - are widely known and heralded for their breakthroughs. The fourth, James Hutton, has never received the same recognition, yet he profoundly changed our understanding of the earth and its dynamic forces.
520 8 $aHutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old rather than the biblically determined six thousand, and that it was continuously being shaped and re-shaped by myriad everyday forces rather than just one cataclysmic event.".
520 8 $a"In this narrative, Jack Repcheck tells the remarkable story of this Scottish gentleman farmer, and how his simple observations on a small tract of land led him to a controversial - some would say heretical - theory. Yet it was Hutton's work that ultimately made Darwin's theory of evolution possible: Man simply could not have evolved from apes, or apes from more distant ancestors, in a mere six thousand years.".
520 8 $a"The Man Who Found Time is also the story of Scotland and the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age - from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin. Through an intricate network of informal salons and social clubs, these "natural philosophers" created a rich intellectual milieu that served as an incubator for Hutton's nascent ideas, helping transform them into a robust and coherent theory.".
520 8 $a"Finally, this is a story about the power of the written words. Jack Repcheck, himself a champion of books, argues that Hutton's work was almost lost to history because he was unable to describe his findings in graceful and readable prose: Unlike Darwin's Origin of the Species, Hutton's one and only book was impenetrable."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHutton, James,$d1726-1797.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80153739
650 0 $aGeology$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054044
650 0 $aGeologists$zScotland$vBiography.
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