WHAT is it that has lured so many trained physicians "afield"? Each man's motive is unique for himself, and yet one general aspect should be remembered: until the nineteenth century, the young man who ...

Sixty-two examples of Hutton's writing, collected at ten-page intervals from the first volume of his 1795 Theory of the Earth, are the basis of this study. James Hutton (1726–1797) described the ...

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