Thus the first step forward, since which there has been no retreat, was taken by Steno in the year 1669; more than a century elapsed before James ... Hutton had given us a “Theory of the Earth ...

Geologists have calculated the age of Earth at 4.6 billion years ... But it wasn't until the late 1700s -- when Scottish geologist James Hutton, who observed sediments building up on the landscape ...

James Hutton, who viewed the Earth as a heat engine 'capable of fusing together sedimentary rocks, causing upheavals in strata and creating mountains', would surely have relished this book.' ...

It is where the founding father of geology arrived at his theory of ... that the Earth was significantly older than had previously been believed. Getty Images James Hutton used the rocks at ...