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Revolutions in the earth : James Hutton and the true age of the world / Stephen Baxter

This history examines the 18th-century discovery of deep time in Enlightenment Scotland and the geological theories that challenged biblical accounts of the Earth's age. It explores the intellectual collaborations that reshaped scientific understanding of natural history.

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