James Hutton and the history of geology /
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
1992.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvr7fbkj |
Mục lục:
- 1. The man and his theory
- 2. "Theory of the earth": the middle phase
- 3. Theory of the earth, 1795
- 4. Hall, Werner, and Jameson
- 5. Playfair
- 6. Huttonian controversy
- 7. Huttonians and Wernerians
- 8. The triumph of facts
- 9. Specific problems
- 10. Lyell
- 11. Hutton and the historians
- 12. Toward modernity
- Appendix 1. Hutton and Black
- Appendix 2. Hutton and Toulmin
- Appendix 3. Hutton and geological time
- Appendix 4. The authorship of Hutton's "Abstract."