James Hutton | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:12 1 Early life and career
00:03:00 1.1 Farming and geology
00:04:39 1.2 Edinburgh and canal building
00:06:38 2 Later life and death
00:07:34 3 Theory of rock formations
00:10:14 3.1 Search for evidence
00:14:12 4 Publication
00:17:09 5 Opposing theories
00:18:54 6 Acceptance of geological theories
00:19:34 7 Other contributions
00:19:44 7.1 Meteorology
00:20:40 7.2 Earth as a living entity
00:21:15 7.3 Evolution
00:24:38 8 Works
00:26:50 9 Recognition
00:27:22 10 See also



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James Hutton ( ; 3 June 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism—a fundamental principle of geology—that explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton's work established geology as a science, and as a result he is referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology".Through observation and carefully reasoned geological arguments, Hutton came to believe that the Earth was perpetually being formed; he recognised that the history of Earth could be determined by understanding how processes such as erosion and sedimentation work in the present day. His theories of geology and geologic time, also called deep time, came to be included in theories which were called plutonism and uniformitarianism. James Lovelock sees Hutton as anticipating Lovelock’s own Gaia hypothesis.