Download or read book Theory of the Earth written by James Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is comprised of Hutton's 1788 paper 'Theory of the Earth', read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, as well as Volumes 1 and 2 of his book of the same name. Although his books, filled with long quotes in French, make difficult reading, Hutton deserves to be better known as one of the makers of the modern view of the Earth.