An Introduction to the History of Science

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Then, having inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the INTERACTION OF THE SCIENCES 133 surface of the land and water-courses ; later he pur- sued these studies in Flanders. During years of highly successful farming, during which Hutton introduced new methods in Berwickshire, he was interested in meteorology, and in geology as related to soils. In 1768, financially independent, Dr. Hutton retired to reside in Edinburgh.
He was very genial and sociab
...le and was in close association with Adam Smith, the economist, and with Black, known in the history of chemistry in con- nection with carbonic acid, latent heat, and experi- ments in magnesia, quicklime, and other alkaline sub- stances (1777). Playfair, professor of mathematics, and later of natural philosophy, was Hutton's disciple and intimate friend. In the distinguished company of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, established in 1782, the founder of dynamic geology was stimulated by these and other distinguished men like William Robertson, Lord Kames, and Watt.

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