Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)

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James Hutton. Etching by J. Kay, 1787.

James Hutton. Plaster relief.

James Hutton (left) and Joseph Black (right), natural philosophers, talking together. Etching and aquatint by J. Kay, 1787.

Revolutions in the earth : James Hutton and the true age of the world / Stephen Baxter.

James Hutton's medical dissertation / Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss.

Dwieście lat teorii ziemi Jamesa Huttona / Joanna Popiołek.

An elementary treatise on geology: determining fundamental points in that science, and containing an examination of some modern geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian theory of the earth / By J.A. De Luc, F.R.S. Translated from the French manuscript, by the Rev. Henry De la Fite.

James Hutton's theory of the earth : the lost drawings / text by G.Y. Craig, D.B. McIntyre, C.D. Waterston ; edited by G.Y. Craig.

An investigation of the principles of knowledge and of the progress of reason, from sense to science and philosophy / James Hutton ; with a new introduction by Jean Jones and Peter Jones.

[James Hutton correspondence].

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James Hutton

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An elementary treatise on geology: determining fundamental points in that science, and containing an examination of some modern geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian theory of the earth / By J.A. De Luc, F.R.S. Translated from the French manuscript, by the Rev. Henry De la Fite.

James Hutton's theory of the earth : the lost drawings / text by G.Y. Craig, D.B. McIntyre, C.D. Waterston ; edited by G.Y. Craig.

An investigation of the principles of knowledge and of the progress of reason, from sense to science and philosophy / James Hutton ; with a new introduction by Jean Jones and Peter Jones.

James Hutton's medical dissertation / Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss.

[James Hutton correspondence].

James Hutton

Images from the collections

Images featuring James Hutton

Works from the collections

An elementary treatise on geology: determining fundamental points in that science, and containing an examination of some modern geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian theory of the earth / By J.A. De Luc, F.R.S. Translated from the French manuscript, by the Rev. Henry De la Fite.

James Hutton's theory of the earth : the lost drawings / text by G.Y. Craig, D.B. McIntyre, C.D. Waterston ; edited by G.Y. Craig.

An investigation of the principles of knowledge and of the progress of reason, from sense to science and philosophy / James Hutton ; with a new introduction by Jean Jones and Peter Jones.

James Hutton's medical dissertation / Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss.

[James Hutton correspondence].

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