Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]
Of Physical Systems, and Geological Theories, in general. In the first chapter I have given a general theory of the earth, with such proofs as I thought were sufficient for the information of intelligent men, who might satisfy themselves by examining the facts on which the reasoning in that theory had been founded. In the second chapter, I have endeavoured to remove the objections which have been made to that theory, by a strenuous patron of…