The Enlightenment & New Town · event 6 of 8

1785

Hutton reads his theory of the earth. James Hutton presents to the Royal Society of Edinburgh the argument, drawn partly from Salisbury Crags, that the earth is immeasurably older than scripture allows.

The The Enlightenment & New Town era

  1. 1745
  2. 1759
  3. 1767
  4. 1768
  5. 1776
  6. 1785
  7. 1822
  8. 1826

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