Project Gutenberg 2004-07-09 Public domain in the USA. 252 Hutton, James 1726 1797 Hutton, Jacobus Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1 (of 4) Reading ease score: 40.9 (College-level). Difficult to read. E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Renald Levesque, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 1 (of 4)" by James Hutton is a scientific publication written in the late 18th century. The text outlines Hutton's revolutionary ideas regarding geology, specifically focusing on the processes that shape the Earth, such as the composition, dissolution, and restoration of land, and the concept of geological time and cycles of decay and renewal. The beginning of the book presents an overview of Hutton's theories on the Earth as a dynamic system, emphasizing the intricate mechanisms by which land is formed and transformed. Hutton discusses the composition of the Earth, including solid land, water, and atmosphere, and introduces the importance of various natural operations, such as consolidation and erosion. He posits that understanding these processes requires comprehensive observation of the natural world as a mechanism of design rather than a product of chance. Hutton sets the stage for his investigations into the origins of geological formations, urging a departure from misguided theories of Earth's creation and asserting that the present state of the Earth has been shaped by a complex interplay of natural forces over vast expanses of time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Geology -- Early works to 1800 QE Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming Browsing: Science - General 765856 764353 2024-10-06T05:02:11.890004 2023-10-06T06:53:49.979148 text/html text/html 758501 2020-12-15T06:43:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 797583 2020-12-15T06:43:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 898662 2024-10-06T05:02:23.842961 application/epub+zip 908971 2024-10-06T05:02:16.644054 application/epub+zip 327141 2024-10-06T05:02:14.481004 application/epub+zip 1398996 2024-10-06T05:02:29.157922 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1367677 2024-10-06T05:02:22.438944 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 645047 2022-09-06T22:52:15.528739 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 731622 731527 2024-10-06T05:02:10.848062 2023-10-06T06:53:49.156103 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 728896 2020-12-15T06:43:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 242389 2020-12-15T06:43:01 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 728925 2020-12-15T06:43:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 241116 2020-12-15T06:43:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21542 2024-10-06T05:02:29.369912 application/rdf+xml 24404 2024-10-06T05:02:15.050046 image/jpeg 4656 2024-10-06T05:02:14.760015 image/jpeg 892613 2024-10-06T05:02:11.962997 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia