James Hutton: The Genius of Time
Ray Perman Birlinn Ltd, (Edinburgh, 2022) pp.304 Hardback, £25; Kindle, £18.48 ISBN: 9781908332202
The grave marker of James Hutton in Greyfriars kirkyard, Edinburgh, describes him as ‘the founder of modern geology’. Certainly, his masterwork gave humankind one of its first glimpses into the dizzying abyss of deep geological time. Ray Perman is well qualified for the task of writing Hutton’s story, as a former chair of the James Hutton Institute and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE); Hutton was, after all,
