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Hutton, James (1726–1797)


James Hutton
Scottish geologist who proposed, in Theory of the Earth (1795), that the Earth's natural features result from continual processes, occurring now at the same rate as they have in the past (see uniformitarianism). These views were little regarded until the work of Charles Lyell some decades later.


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