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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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James Hutton
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(1726–97) Regarded as the founder of modern *geology, his originality lay in observing that the mingled strata of rocks round his native Edinburgh could not have derived from isolated catastrophic events (as the biblical account required) but showed signs of long processes of sedimentation, erosion and volcanic eruption of a kind still continuing. He could see, in his much quoted phrase, 'no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end'.
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