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James_Hutton

Published the works that allowed people to say that the earth was millions of years old. The people of the time started to look more toward evoloutinary principals, in stead of the bible, such as the uniformaitarian principle. He also makes use of thermal energy as a contributer to the process. Fire was not the only source of heat and his acknowlegements of this made his views unique.He composed his ideas in a work called theory of the earth.

 

Gerstner, Patsy."James Hutton's Theory of the Earth and His Theory of Matter,"The University of chicago press Vol. 59, No. 1. (Spring, 1968), pp. 26-31.

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton

 

Asimov, Isaac . Asimov's guide to science(Basic books, inc.New York London,1972)

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