The coming of evolution : the story of a great revolution in science / by John W. Judd.

  • John Wesley Judd
Date:
1910
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Credit: The coming of evolution : the story of a great revolution in science / by John W. Judd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    independently, and by different lines of reasoning, at conclusions identical with those of Generelli and Desmarest. Although, as we shall see, Hutton failed to greatly influence the scientific thought of his day, yet all will now agree with Lyell that ‘ Hutton laboured to give fixed principles to geology, as Newton had succeeded in doing to astronomy11’; and with Zittel that ‘Huttons Theory of the Earth is one of the master- pieces in the history of geology12.’ 2—2