Theory Of The Earth Or An Investigation Of The Laws Observable In The Composition Dissolution And

by James Hutton John Playfair Gregory Watt Sir James Hall Thomas Beddoes

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First edition

Edinburgh: for the Royal Society of Edinburgh, c. 1787 . First edition, the rare offprint in which Hutton’s theory of the earth first circulated in his own words, and James Watt’s copy, bound for the Watts with four further tracts of the Huttonian controversy under the label Tracts Geological, 1785 to 1805 — the paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 7 March and 4 April 1785 which found in the

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