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100 1 _aHutton, James,
_d1726-1797
245 1 0 _aTheory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 2 (of 4)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_Earth
500 _aRelease date is 2004-11-27
508 _aProduced by Robert Shimmin, Renald Levesque and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
520 _a"Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 2 (of 4)" by James Hutton is a geological work published in 1795. This foundational text argues that Earth formed through natural forces operating over vast timescales, challenging biblical accounts of Earth's age. Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism—that present processes explain past geological features—would profoundly influence Charles Lyell and, through him, Charles Darwin. The work even contains early hints of natural selection, describing how organisms best suited to their circumstances survive and multiply. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aGeology -- Early works to 1800
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14179
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