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James Hutton FRSE ( / ˈhʌtən /; 3 June O.S. [citation needed] 1726 – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. [1] Often referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology," [2] [3] he played a key role in establishing geology as a modern science.
James was born in Ohio on 31 Mar 1847 and died in New York City at 10 E 47th St. on 14 Dec. 1885 due to heart disease, at only 38 years of age. His father, Levi Hutton, was a farmer and James was living and working on the family farm in 1870. James made his way to New York City before his marriage in 1872 and became...
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James Hutton was born in Edinburgh in 1726. He went on to study medicine and chemistry at Edinburgh University, and in Paris and Leiden. He took his degree in 1749. In 1750 he returned to Edinburgh and resumed chemical experiments with friend James Davie. Their work on the production of sal ammoniac – a salt used for dying and working with ...
Portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn, courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer and naturalist, is known as the founder of modern geology. He was a great observer of the world around him. More importantly, he made carefully reasoned geological arguments.
Scottish Enlightenment. James Hutton (born June 3, 1726, Edinburgh, Scotland—died March 26, 1797, Edinburgh) was a Scottish geologist, chemist, naturalist, and originator of one of the fundamental principles of geology— uniformitarianism, which explains the features of the Earth’s crust by means of natural processes over geologic time.
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Research genealogy for James Laws Hutton of Cross Creek Twp., Jefferson Co., OH, as well as other members of the Hutton family, on Ancestry®. ... Death 14 DEC 1885 ...
Hutton did not publish his Theory of the Earth in book form until 1794. Unfortunately the book was so badly written that few succeeded in reading it. In 1802, five years after Hutton’s death, John Playfair tried to explain the theory in his Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. However Hutton’s theory did not become widely
