Hutton, James

Scottish natural philosopher of the eighteenth century; generally regarded as the founder of modern geology . He argued that the Earth is very old and that its history can be read in the rocks. He also argued that the physical processes that shape the Earth today are the same as those that operated in the past.

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The new movement began actively with James Hutton in the later years of the 18th Chronology of ancient history.

In both instances the printer was James Hutton, the Moravian.

To a very different type of character in every respect belonged James Hutton, another dear friend of Franklin.

Among the first of these emissaries was Franklin's good friend, James Hutton.

James Hutton, 1795, of whom there is an engraved portrait in mezzotinto, with a trumpet to his ear.

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