National Galleries of Scotland On a June afternoon in 1788, James Hutton stood ... Playfair's book fell into favor with Charles Lyell, who was born in 1797, the year that Hutton died.

He then gives an incomplete account of Hutton's scientific work, and carries the story through to the work of Charles Lyell and Darwin ... (with Alan McKirdy), James Hutton: The Founder of ...

Coined by geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell, this is the idea that past processes (like erosion or climate change) that have altered the Earth over time remain similar, so we can analyse them ...