Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. The Man and His Theory 1
6. 2. “Theory of the Earth”: The Middle Phase 30
7. 3. Theory of the Earth, 1795 58
8. 4. Hall, Werner, and Jameson 84
9. 5. Playfair 102
10. 6. Huttonian Controversy 126
11. 7. Huttonians and Wernerians 144
12. 8. The Triumph of Facts 163
13. 9. Specific Problems 183
14. 10. Lyell 202
15. 11. Hutton and the Historians 230
16. 12. Toward Modernity 248
17. Appendix 1. Hutton and Black 271
18. Appendix 2. Hutton and Toulmin 272
19. Appendix 3. Hutton and Geological Time 275
20. Appendix 4. The Authorship of Hutton’s “Abstract” 275
21. Bibliography 277
22. Index 297