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James Hutton (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
Wikipedia's biography of James Hutton, the Scottish naturalist widely called the father of modern geology, covering his education, farming and chemical works, and the publication history of his Theory of the Earth.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against the Royal Society of Edinburgh's own record of the 1785 presentation dates and the 1788 and 1795 publication history of Theory of the Earth. Sources
James Hutton (Wikipedia)
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- Scientists, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Concepts, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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