4 results for 'James Hutton'

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars.Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way...

Published for the first time since its creation in 1942, this most secret facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture and...

"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who...

A fresh edition of one of the classics of English cricket history, written by one of the game’s most talented and distinctive writers. With a mixture of detail and delight, shrewd assessment and...