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James hutton biography summary


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    Born
    3 June 1726
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    Died
    26 March 1797
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    Summary
    James Hutton was a Scottish chemist and geologist best known for his theory of the age of the Earth.

    He was greatly influenced by Newton's work.

    Biography

    James Hutton was a chemist but is best known as a geologist. Why then include him in this archive? There are two reasons.

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  • How did james hutton die

    • First his remarkable theory of the age of the Earth was inspired by Newton's world view as presented in the teaching of Colin Maclaurin, and second that one of his main collaborators in his geological research was John Playfair.



    James Hutton's mother was Sarah Balfour and his father was William Hutton. James was born into a wealthy family for his father William was a merchant who held the office of Edinburgh city treasurer. William owned a 140 acre farm at Slighhouses and a nearby hill farm of 590 acres named Nether Monynut.

    Slighhouses is west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, about 7 km north of Dun