biography
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| (1726–97)
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| biography:
| Geologist, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He studied medicine there, at Paris, and at Leyden. In 1754 he devoted himself to agriculture and chemistry in Berwickshire, which led him to mineralogy and geology; in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh. The Huttonian theory, emphasizing the igneous origin of many rocks and deprecating the assumption of causes other than those we see still at work, was expounded in A Theory of the Earth (1795), which forms the basis of modern geology. |
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