This work was edited by Sir John William Kaye
, who had acquired ECK
's papers, comprised of journals and an unfinished autobiography, from Lady Egerton
, to whom Knight had bequeathed them.
Charlotte, Lady...
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7 March 1785: A paper by James Hutton was read to the Royal...
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7 March 1785
A paper by James Hutton
was read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
, which first propounded his theory, based on the study of rocks and fossils, that the earth was millions of years old...
