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James Hutton

(Hutton, James, 1726-1797)

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• Hutton, James, 1726-1797, ed.: Essays on I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysics; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (London: A. Murray and Co., 1872), by Adam Smith, also ed. by Joseph Black
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797, ed.: Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, also ed. by Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: The Theory of Rain (extract from Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; 1788) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: Theory of the Earth, or, An Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe (based on the paper read in 1785 and published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1788) (HTML with commentary at uwc.edu)
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations (1795; the only two volumes published by Hutton of a projected four)
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • both volumes (and posthumous 1899 third volume compiled from his manuscripts): page images in Switzerland
  • 1960 reprint of original 2 volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations (posthumously edited partial text of planned third volume, based on Hutton's notes, with index to two previously published volumes; London: Geological Society, 1899), ed. by Archibald Geikie
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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Additional books from the extended shelves:

• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: Dissertatio physico-medica inauguralis de sanguine et circulatione microcosmi : quam, annuente deo ter opt. max. (Apud Wilhelmum Boot, 1749), also by Joachim Schwartz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hutton, James, 1726-1797: Essays on philosophical subjects. (T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies; [etc., etc.], 1795), also by Adam Smith, Joseph Black, and Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

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