The man who found time : James Hutton and the discovery of Earth's antiquity / Jack Repcheck.
Pubblicazione:
London : Pocket books, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
247 p. ; 20 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Prologue. 1. Looking so far into the abyss of time 2. First came Adam and Eve, then came Cain and Abel... 3. Auld Reekie 4. The storm before the calm 5. Youthful wanderings 6. The paradox of the soil 7. The Athens of the north 8. The eureka moments 9. Hutton's Boswells 10. The Huttonian revolution. Epilogue. Appendix. Sources and suggested readings. Acknowledgments. Index
