AT JUST THE time that Henry dish was pleting his experiments in London, fourhundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of cluding moment was about to take placewith the death of James Hutton. This was bad news for Hutton, of course, but good news forsce as it cleared the way for a man named John Playfair to rewrite Hutton’s work withoutfear of embarrassment.
Hutton was by all ats a man of the kee insights and liveliest versation, a delightin pany, and without rival when it came to uanding the mysterious slow processesthat shaped the Earth. Unfortunately, it was beyond him to set down his notions in a form thatanyone could begin to uand. He was, as one biographer observed with an all but audiblesigh, “almost entirely i of rhetorical aplishments.” Nearly every line he pennedwas an invitation to slumber. Here he is in his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth withProofs and Illustrations , discussing . . . something:
The world which we inhabit is pos……（内容加载失败！）
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