The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity » (Reprint)

Jack Repcheck is an editor at W. W. Norton & Co., where he publishes the work of leading scientists and economists. He is also the author of Copernicus’ Secret. He lives with his family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The story of the gentleman farmer from Edinburgh who discovered that the earth was millions of years old, not six thousand, and paved the way for Darwin's theory of evolution

The Los Angeles Times

The biography is a refreshing look at the importance of his ideas to future paradigm-shifting scholars such as geologist Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Repchek relies on Hutton's friendships and environment to recreate the evolution of his ideas and to carry them beyond Hutton's death to the current estimation of the Earth's age: 4.55 billion years. — Susan Salter Reynolds