The story of how western society used to calculate the age of the Earth and how that estimate and our collective perception of time was changed.
Meet James Hutton, an icon from the Scottish Enlightenment who studied the surface of the earth, using Naturalist Principles such as Uniformitarianism, and launched our modern understanding of the Rock Cycle.

This Video is based on:
• The Book - The Story of Earth in 25 Rocks by Donald Prothero
• The Documentary - Men of Rock: Deep Time by Iain Stewart from BBC Scotland
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CHAPTERS:
[0:00] - Ussher-Lightfoot Hypothesis
[2:14] - Scottish Enlightenment
[5:36] - James Hutton
[6:37] - Observations of the Earth
[8:19] - Theory of the Earth
[11:16] - Angular Unconformity = Lot of Time
[13:27] - Hutton's Contribution