The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity - Couverture rigide

Repcheck, Jack

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743231899 ISBN 13 : 9780743231893

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In this book, Jack Repcheck tells the story of this Scottish gentleman farmer and how his simple observations on his small tract of land led him to a theory that was in direct confrontation with the Bible and that also provided the scientific proof that would spark Darwin's theory of evolution. It is also the story of Scotland and the Scottish Enlightenment, which brought together some of the greatest thinkers of the age, from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Watt and Erasmus Darwin. Finally, it is a story about the power of the written word. Repcheck argues that Hutton's work was lost to history because he could not describe his findings in graceful and readable prose. (Unlike Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", Hutton's one and only book was impenetrable.) A narrative about a little-known man and the science he founded, this text is also a parable about the power of books to shape the history of ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jack Repcheck is an acquiring editor at W. W. Norton, with a long career in publishing great works of science. He has an MA in Irish Social History and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and five children. This is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0743231899
• ISBN 13: 9780743231893
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible