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"The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity" by Jack Repcheck

The story of the gentleman who discovered that the earth was millions of years old, not six thousand, and paved the way for Darwin's theory of evolution. A marvelous narrative about a little-known man and the science he founded, about the power of books to shape the history of ideas.

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There are three men whose contributions helped free science from the straitjacket of theology. Two of the three-Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin-are widely known and heralded for their breakthroughs. The third, James Hutton, never received the same recognition, yet he profoundly changed our understanding of the earth and its dynamic forces. Hutton proved that the earth was likely millions of years old rather than the biblically determined six thousand, and that it was continuously being shaped and re-shaped by myriad everyday forces rather than one cataclysmic event.

In this expertly crafted narrative, Jack Repcheck tells the remarkable story of this Scottish gentleman farmer and how his simple observations on his small

tract of land led him to a theory that was in direct confrontation with the Bible and that also provided the scientific proof that would spark Darwin's theory of evolution. It is also the story of Scotland and the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age, from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin. Finally, it is a story about the power of the written word. Repcheck argues that Hutton's work was lost to history because he could not describe his findings in graceful and readable prose.

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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 Boswell’s

10 • The Huttonian Revolution

Epilogue

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Bonus - "Time Paradox: New Psychology of Time", 2009 : Download Link (TP ES Mirror) • | • Download Link (TP RS Download)

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