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Scottish physician, experimental farmer, Naturalist and Geologist Biography of James Hutton from his early life to early 1660s as an innovative farmer, prior becoming a geologist. James Hutton was the brilliant 18th-century Scottish geologist and farmer, considered the father of modern geology. His studies of the rock formations helped him to formulate his most famous work, Theory of the Earth, used as the basis for geological theory. Early Life of James Hutton James Hutton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June 14, 1726, the eldest son of Sarah and William Hutton. His childhood was peaceful enough. He was educated at Edinburgh High School, then as a teenager at the University of Edinburgh, where he came under the eye of Colin Maclaurin, who had worked with the aging Isaac Newton in London. Maclaurin, an admirer of Newton,... [read full story]
