詹姆斯·赫顿

詹姆斯·哈登 （，)，苏格兰地质学家、医生、博物学家、化学家、農學家。他的理论主要是关于地质学和地质时期，包括了火成说和漸变论。哈登的理論為現代地質學的發展奠定了基礎，因而常被稱為“現代地質學之父”。

生平
1726年出生于苏格兰爱丁堡。毕业于爱丁堡大學，巴黎大学和莱顿大学。

參考文獻
擴展閱讀

• Baxter, Stephen (2003). Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time. New York: Tor Books, 2004. ISBN 0-7653-1238-7. Published in the UK as Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-82975-0

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• Repcheck, Jack (2003). The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity. London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-3189-9 (UK), ISBN 0-7382-0692-X (US)

外部連結
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080415155107/http://www.james-hutton.org.uk/ James Hutton.org.uk], links to James HuttonThe Man and The James Hutton Trail*.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081012032315/http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HU/HUTTON_JAMES.htm Biography of James Hutton (From: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Ed., 1910–1911)]
*[http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/darwin/sect2.htm James Hutton and Uniformitarianism] (scroll down)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110529040522/http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/hutton/James%20Hutton%20grave.htm James Hutton's memorial in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030729055405/http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/hutton/hutton.htm First Publication of Theory of the Earth]
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