Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 He cared more about fossils … 1
2 Not ten days in which I was not flogged 9
3 He shall not commit the filthy crimes … 19
4 All that … is absurd and false 27
5 More keen of martial toil … 39
6 I shall die like a cock … 46
7 Turning soot into gold 57
8 Hutton dreaded nothing so much as ignorance 65
9 Wrote by the finger of God 77
10 Lord pity the arse that's clagged to a head 88
11 Look with a kinder eye towards me 101
12 A Junto of Jacobites and Tories 111
13 The operation of subterraneous fire … 122
14 Time … is to nature endless 132
15 His ideas are magnificent … 142
16 … having found the most perfect evidence 151
17 I was much weakened by it 162
18 In some respects a foreign tongue 173
19 The doctor will not easily submit 191
20 Death only as a passage 200
21 Ages may be required 211
22 Hutton every day strikes me with astonishment 222
23 What Newton achieved … 232
Hutton's timeline 239
Glossary of geological terms 241
Glossary of scientific terms 245
Sources 247
Notes and references 259
Index 281
