Hutton, James

Popkin, Richard H. "Plans for publishing Newton s religious and alchemical manuscripts, 1982-1998." In Nwton and Newtonianism, eds. James E. Force and Sarah Hutton, 15-22. Dordrecht Kluwer, 2004. 

PCT is proximal convoluted tubule, DL is descending limb of the loop of Henle, Thin AL is thin ascending limb of the loop of Henle, Thick AL is thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, DCT is distal convoluted tubule and CD is collecting duct. (This figure is reproduced with permission from Fundamental Principles and Practice of Anaesthesia, P. Hutton, G. Cooper, F. James and J. Butterworth. Martin-Dunitz 2002 pp. 487, illustration no. 25.16.)... 

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Biographical Account of the Late James Hutton (p. 74)... 

Hutton s theory of heat was very important to his theory of the Earth but was given little prominence in the accounts of Hutton s theory developed by his followers, notably John Playfair and Sir James Hall,24 who reinterpreted and reshaped it. For them the chemical theory of heat was an excisable irrelevance, a diversion from the centrally important features of Hutton s theory of the Earth.25... 

Gerstner, James Hutton s Theory of the Earth Donovan, James Hutton pp. 176-7. 

J. Jones, H. S. Torrens and E. Robinson, The Correspondence between James Hutton (1726-1797) and James Watt (1736-1819) with two letters from Hutton to George Clerk-Maxwell (1715-1784) Part I) Annals of Science, 51 (1994), pp. 637-53, on p. 638. 

J. Playfair, Biographical Account of the late Dr James Hutton, F. R. S. Edin. , Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 5 (1805), pp. 39-99 on p. 91. Playfair s account is also notable for the extent to which it emphasises the centrality of chemistry to Hutton s intellectual world ...he [Hutton] began from chemistry and it was from thence that he took his departure in his circum-navigation both of the material and intellectual world (p. 74). This is ironic given Playfair s role in disguising the details of Hutton s chemistry of heat and their role in his theory. 

G. L. Davies, The Earth in Decay A History of British Geomorphology 1578-1878 (London Macdonald Technical and Scientific, 1969), pp. 175-6. The theme of Watt s steam engine as inspiration for Hutton is pursued enthusiastically in S. Baxter, Revolutions in the Earth. James Hutton and the True Age of the World (London Weidenfeld Nicol-son, 2003), pp. 98-108. 

See D. R. Dean, Hutton Scholarship, 1992-1997 , in G. Y. Craig and J. H. Hull (eds), James Hutton — Present and Future (London Geological Society of London Special Publications, 1999), pp. 175-179 on p. 176. Dean s targets in his denial of the accuracy of this attribution to Hutton are D. Allchin, James Hutton and Phlogiston) Annals of Science, 51 (1994), pp. 615-35 and Oldroyd, Thinking about the Earth. 

Both Watt and De Luc were associated with Robert Jameson s Wernerian Society and so apparently allied with the Neptunist faction. But we know that Watt, at least, was a long-time friend and admirer of James Hutton, the figurehead of the Vulcanists. The dichotomy in any case is a false one since all agreed that both fire and water had their role. 

Allchin, D., James Hutton and Phlogiston Annals of Science, 51 (1994), pp. 615-35. 

Baxter, S., Revolutions in the Earth. James Hutton and the True Age of the World (London Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2003). 

Dean, D. R., Hutton Scholarship, 1992-1997 , in G. Y. Craig and J. H. Hull (eds), James Hutton - Present and Future (London Geological Society of London Special Publications, 1999). 

James Hutton, Joseph Black and the Chemical Theory of Heat , Ambix, 25 (1978), pp. 176-90. 

Finally, it is important to revisit a central tenet of modern geological interpretation -the principle of uniformitarianism. Originally formulated by James Hutton in the eighteenth century the principle of uniformitarianism states that the physical and chemical processes which shape the modern world also operated... 

Dean, Dennis R. James Hutton and the History of Geology. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 1992. 

McIntyre, Donald B., and Alan McKirdy. James Hutton The Eounder of Modem Geology. Edinburgh Stationery Office, 1997. 

Repcheck, Jack. The Man Who Found Time James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth s Antiquity. Reading, Mass. Perseus Books, 2003. 

Sal ammoniac was manufactured in Edinburgh from the soot of bituminous coal from about 1756 by James Davie and James Hutton, and since Hutton was an intimate friend. Black was probably interested in the process. About the same time the Earl of Dundonald was making sal ammoniac as a by-product in the manufacture of coke. ... 

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