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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Repcheck
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 369599
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0743450876
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9780743450874
ASIN: 0743450876
Publication Date: July 5, 2004
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 Was this book ever proof-read? September 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm in agreement with the other reviews so far. The author evidently has an amateur interest in geology and in all things Scots, but the book is let down through poor copy-editing. 'Glenfinnen', 'Kilcaldy', the little-known Jacobite battle of 'Preston'[pans] and reference to the Edinburgh suburb of [the]'New Town' are just some of the glaring errors that simple perusal of an atlas would have helped to avoid. The book is written, I suspect, for the American market (Ben Franklin gets a look in as a minor player in the Scottish Enlightenment).
And boy, is it padded out!? I lived in Edinburgh for 18 years, and studied at the University, including an elective in earth science. I saw this book in a remaindered pile in Vancouver and thought it might be interesting. The author seems to be more keen on rescuing Hutton from what he deems to be obscurity than on presenting a well written account of the genesis of his theory or uniformitarianism. His main thrust of argument is that Hutton is important because the Old Earth Theory lent weight to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection (since the latter required large spans of geological time).
Overall an interesting, if rambling and ultimately unsatisfying read.
Wrongly titled book June 22, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading this book I know more about the great scientific minds in Edinburgh at the time of HUTTON than I did.
Barely mentioned and badly researched, HUTTON comes in second best to daily life in Edinburgh.
Siccar Point gets the briefest of mentions and for the birthplace of modern Geology, it's just another place in a poor paperback
 Padded and Sloppy June 29, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The map near the beginning of the book stands as a warning: "Glenfinnan" is mis-spelt and the "Firth of Forth" label has slipped its moorings and set off for Norway. The book is full of errors: basic names such as "Kirkcaldy", "Fencibles" and "Greyfriars" are mangled, betraying lack of knowledge, suspect research, poor proof-reading and non-existent fact-checking.Even worse is the padding: pages of bumph on Edinburgh, the '45, the Enlightenment et al create an inflated volume when a tightly-edited, slimmer book would have been so much better. Granted, biographical material on Hutton is limited but the inclusion of so much "background" material is off-putting. I was expecting a few Burns poems and perhaps some contemporary recipes to complete the picture. The two stars are for the content relating to Hutton's work; it's in there but you have to wade through a lot of tosh to find it.
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