James Hutton and the History of GeologyCornell University Press, 1992 - 303 pagine Though the publication of Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1795) is usually regarded as the beginning of modern geology, it and other works by Hutton have rarely been studied in the original. Dean provides an accurate account of Hutton's major geological writings, in the light of his training and exper |
Sommario
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Hall Werner and Jameson | 84 |
Playfair | 102 |
Huttonian Controversy | 126 |
Huttonians and Wernerians | 144 |
The Triumph of Facts | 163 |
Lyell | 202 |
Hutton and the Historians | 230 |
Toward Modernity | 248 |
Hutton and Black | 271 |
Hutton and Toulmin | 272 |
Hutton and Geological Time | 275 |
Index | 297 |
Specific Problems | 183 |
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Pagina 238 - was the first in which geology was declared to be in no way concerned about questions as to the origin of things; the first in which an attempt was made to dispense entirely with all hypothetical causes, and to explain the former changes of the earth's crust by reference exclusively to natural agents
Pagina 256 - the existing state of things on the earth, life on the earth, all geological history showing continuity of life, must be limited within some such period of past time as one hundred million years
Pagina 261 - I affirm that the geological record furnishes a mass of evidence which no arguments drawn from other departments of Nature can explain away, and which, it seems to me, cannot be satisfactorily interpreted save with an allowance of time much beyond the narrow limits which recent physical speculation would concede
Pagina 256 - me to be one of the most remarkable contributions to geology which is recorded in the annals of the science. So far as the not-living world is concerned, uniformitarianism lies there, not only in germ, but in blossom and fruit
Pagina 29 - The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end
Pagina 88 - judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire, and looked into the bottom of a little crucible
Pagina 28 - we are certain that all the coasts of the present continents are wasted by the sea and constantly wearing away upon the whole, but this operation is so extremely slow that we cannot find a measure of the quantity in order to form an estimate
Pagina 88 - I was anxious to warn the reader against the notion that subterraneous heat and fusion could be compared with that which we induce by our chemical operations on mineral substances here upon the surface of the earth; yet, notwithstanding all the precaution I had taken, our author
Pagina 214 - must underlie all the strata containing organic remains, because the heat proceeds from below upwards, and the intensity required to reduce the mineral ingredients to a fluid state must destroy all organic bodies in rocks either subjacent or included in the midst of them