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Author Repcheck, Jack.

Title The man who found time : James Hutton and the discovery of the earth's antiquity / Jack Repcheck.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Perseus, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  551 REPCHECK    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  509 REPCHECK    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. HUTTON, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  551 R299    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  509 REP    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO HUTTON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  551.092 REP    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  551.7 R29    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  551.092 REP    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  551 REPCHECK    Check Shelf
Description 247 pages : map ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
Summary Follows the story of the gentleman farmer from Edinburgh whose observations about the age of the planet challenged theological beliefs, by citing his contributions to proving Darwin's theories.
Contents Looking so far into the abyss of time -- First came Adam and Eve, then came Cain and Abel... -- Auld Reekie -- The storm before the calm -- Youthful wanderings -- The paradox of the soil -- The Athens of the north -- The eureka moments -- Hutton's Boswell's -- The Huttonian revolution
Subject Hutton, James, 1726-1797.
Geology -- History.
Geologists -- Scotland -- Biography.
ISBN 073820692X
9780738206929
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