James Hutton’s revolutionary idea that our landscape was formed over an enormous period was effectively the beginning of geology as a science. It was controversial too – outraging a society ...

Hutton, as painted by Sir Henry Raeburn in 1776. National Galleries of Scotland On a June afternoon in 1788, James Hutton stood before a rock outcropping on Scotland’s western coast named Siccar ...

Professor Mary Bourke from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Paul Quinn, a senior research scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been appointed to look at adopting ...

In the 1700s, the geologist James Hutton identified a formation of rocks that would transform how we think about time. In the first of three films about "deep time", journalist and author Richard ...

THE MAN WHO FOUND TIME: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity Jack Repcheck, . . Perseus, $26 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7382-0692-9 ...