Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time by Stephen Baxter
Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

Stephen Baxter

Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

Stephen Baxter

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
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In the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, based on biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the irregular strat...

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