✦ LIBER ✦
John Whitehurst (1713–1788): philosopher, geologist, horologist and engineer
✍ Scribed by Trevor D. Ford
- Book ID
- 104460664
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 870 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0266-6979
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✦ Synopsis
Among the late 18th‐century pioneers of geological science was John Whitehurst. He set the scene for the early Derbyshire geologists, White Watson and John Farey, whose books were not published until 1811, long after Whitehurst's death. But Whitehurst's ideas went beyond Derbyshire; he looked at the global situation in his book An Inquiry into the Original State & Formation of the Earth (1778, 1786). Whitehurst was a founder member of the influential Lunar Society and a close friend of many philosophers of the period.