{"title":"Book reviewJames Hutton: The Genius of Time, by Ray Perman, Berlinn Ltd. Edinburgh, 2022, £25, hardcopy and ebook, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-78027-785-1","authors":"C. Braithwaite","doi":"10.1144/sjg2022-013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ray Perman is a writer and journalist, a former Chair of the James Hutton Institute in Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which James Hutton was a founding member. There have been five previous biographies of Hutton, but this thoroughly researched volume offers a detailed account of the life and work of the Great Man. It includes insights into his personality and explanations for some of the mysteries surrounding him. We are shown the society in which he lived, in the period described as The Enlightenment, and in which Hutton was both a product and a co-driver.","PeriodicalId":49556,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Journal of Geology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scottish Journal of Geology","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2022-013","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ray Perman is a writer and journalist, a former Chair of the James Hutton Institute in Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which James Hutton was a founding member. There have been five previous biographies of Hutton, but this thoroughly researched volume offers a detailed account of the life and work of the Great Man. It includes insights into his personality and explanations for some of the mysteries surrounding him. We are shown the society in which he lived, in the period described as The Enlightenment, and in which Hutton was both a product and a co-driver.
Ray Perman是一名作家和记者，曾任爱丁堡詹姆斯·赫顿研究所主席，也是爱丁堡皇家学会会员，詹姆斯·赫顿是该学会的创始成员。赫顿之前有五本传记，但这本经过深入研究的书详细描述了这位伟人的生活和工作。其中包括对他的个性的见解，以及对围绕他的一些谜团的解释。我们看到了他所生活的社会，在被描述为启蒙运动的时期，赫顿既是一个产物，也是一个共同驱动者。
期刊介绍：
Although published only since 1965, the Scottish Journal of Geology has a long pedigree. It is the joint publication of the Geological Society of Glasgow and the Edinburgh Geological Society, which prior to 1965 published separate Transactions: from 1860 in the case of Glasgow and 1863 for Edinburgh.
Traditionally, the Journal has acted as the focus for papers on all aspects of Scottish geology and its contiguous areas, including the surrounding seas. The publication policy has always been outward looking, with the Editors encouraging review papers and papers on broader aspects of the Earth sciences that cannot be discussed solely in terms of Scottish geology.
The diverse geology of Scotland continues to provide an important natural laboratory for the study of earth sciences; many seminal studies in geology have been carried out on Scottish rocks, and over the years the results of much of this work had been published in the Journal and its predecessors.
The Journal fully deserves its high reputation worldwide and intends to maintain its status in the front rank of publications in the Earth sciences.
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