Hutton, James (1726 - 1797)

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James Hutton MD (Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS (14 June 1726 NS)  – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, chemist and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology.[1][2] His theories of geology and geologic time,[3] also called deep time,[4] came to be included in theories which were called plutonism and uniformitarianism....

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