Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

Research for the whole project including this website, the permanent exhibition, the trail leaflets and interpretation boards was based on the following;

Bibliography

  • Archer, Stuart G., Underhill, John R. & Peters, Kenneth E. (2017). Hutton's great unconformity at Siccar Point, Scotland: Where deep time was revealed and uniformitarianism conceived.
  • Bailey, Edward B., Sir. (1949). James Hutton, founder of modern geology (1726–1797).
  • Bassett, Douglas A. (1970). James Hutton, The founder of modern geology: an anthology.
  • Baxter, Stephen (2003). Ages in chaos: James Hutton and the discovery of deep time.
  • Baxter, Stephen. (2004). Revolutions in the earth: James Hutton and the true age of the world.
  • Broadie, Alexander. (1997). The Scottish Enlightenment: an anthology.
  • Buchan, James. (2007). Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world.
  • Butcher, N.E. (1997) James Hutton’s house at St John’s Hill Edinburgh. Book of the old Edinburgh Club, New Series Vol 4 pp107-112
  • Carruthers, Margaret W. & Clinton, Susan. (2001). Pioneers of geology: discovering Earth's secrets.
  • Craig G.Y. and Hull J.H. (1999) James Hutton – Present and Future. Geological Society special publication 150
  • Gould, Stephen Jay. (1987). Time's arrow Time's cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time.
  • Hutton, James. (2007). The sacred theory of the earth: concerning what has gone and what is to come.
  • Hutton, James. (1788). The theory of rain.
  • Hutton, J. (1785) Abstract of a dissertation concerning the system of the earth, its duration and stability. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library, second reprint (1997)
  • Hutton, J. (1750-1790) Elements of Agriculture. Unpublished treatise owned by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and held in the National Library of Scotland
  • Hutton, James. (2017). Theory of the earth (1795) - Volume I. Part I: With the examination of different opinions on that subject in eight chapters.
  • Hutton, James. (1785). Theory of the earth or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution, and restoration of land upon the globe. (From the Transaction of Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 1, Part II, pp209-304).
  • Hutton, James, Eyles, V.A. & Eyles, Joan M. (1951). Some geological correspondence of James Hutton.
  • Huxley, Robert (ed.). (2007). The great naturalists.
  • Jones, J. (1982) James Hutton and the Forth and Clyde Canal. Annuls of Science. Volume 39. Pages 255-263
  • Jones, J. (1983) James Hutton: Exploration and oceanography. Annuls of Science. Volume 40. Pages 81-94
  • Jones, J. (1984) James Hutton, Founder of modern geology. Scotland’s cultural heritage.
  • Jones, J. (1985) James Hutton’s Agricultural Research and his Life as a Farmer. Annuls of Science. Volume 42. Pages 573 – 601
  • Jones, J., Torrens H.S., and Robinson, E., (1994) The Correspondence between James Hutton and James Watt with two letters from Hutton to George Clerk-Maxwell: Part 1 Annals of Science Vol 51, pp 637-653
  • Jones, J., Torrens H.S., and Robinson, E., (1995) The Correspondence between James Hutton and James Watt with two letters from Hutton to George Clerk-Maxwell: Part 2. Annals of Science Vol 52, pp 357-382
  • Kay, John, Szatkowski, Sheila. (2007). Capital caricatures: a selection of etchings by John Kay.
  • Macdougall, Doug. (2008). Nature's clocks: how scientists measure the age of almost everything.
  • Macgregor, Murray. (1949). Life and times of James Hutton. In: James Hutton, 1726-1797: Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of his death.
  • McIntyre, D.B. (2008). The Royal Society of Edinburgh, James Hutton, Clerks of Penicuik and the igneous origin of granite. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 97, Suppl. 1-Suppl. 15, 2008 (for 2006).
  • McIntyre, D.B. & McKirdy, Alan (2012). James Hutton: the founder of modern geology.
  • McKirdy, Alan. (2017). Edinburgh: landscapes in stone.
  • McIntyre D.B. and McKirdy A., (1997) James Hutton, the founder of modern geology. National Museum of Scotland.
  • McIntyre D.B. (1999) James Hutton’s Edinburgh: a précis, in James Hutton – Present and Future edited by Craig GY and Hull JH. Geological Society special publication Number 150.
  • Pittock, Murray. (2019). Enlightenment in a smart city: Edinburgh's civic development, 1660-1750.
  • Playfair J. (1805) Biography of James Hutton. Volume 5, Transactions the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Playfair, John & Hutton, James. (2015). Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth.
  • Repcheck, Jack. (2004). The man who found time: James Hutton and the discovery of the earth's antiquity.
  • Rider, Malcolm H. (2005). Hutton's arse: 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland's Northern Highlands.
  • Robinson, Andrew (ed.). (2012). The scientists: an epic of discovery.
  • Rudwick, M.J.S., (2005) Bursting the limits of time; The reconstruction of geohistory in the Age of Revolution. Chicago
  • Samson, Paul R. (ed.) & Pitt, David (ed.). (1999). The biosphere and noosphere reader: global environment, society and change.
  • Şengör, A. M. Celâl. (2020). Revising the revisions: James Hutton's reputation among geologists in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • Stewart, I. (2010). Men of rock: Deep time.
  • Tinkler, K.J. (ed.) (1989). History of geomorphology: from Hutton to Hack.
  • Tomkeieff, S.I. (1948). James Hutton and the philosophy of geology.
  • Tyrrell, G.W. (1949). Hutton in Arran [paper published in James Hutton, 1726–1797: Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of his Death].
  • Tyrell, G.W. (1949). Hutton on Arran.
  • Walton, D.D. (2006). James Hutton's Slighhouses: remnants of an eighteenth century landscape.
  • Walton, D.D. (2006). The Scottish Borders James Hutton trail.
  • Withers, C.W.J. (1994). On georgics and geology: James Hutton's 'Elements of agriculture' and agricultural science in eighteenth-century Scotland.