James Hutton’s revolutionary idea that our landscape was formed over an enormous period was effectively the beginning of geology as a science. It was controversial too ...

The James Hutton Institute is named after him because he was an acknowledged innovator, thinker and his areas of science mapped so well to our work. We are one of the biggest independent ...

James Hutton: The Genius of Time, by Ray Perman, Birlinn, 290pp, £25. Related topics: Edinburgh Scotland. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our ...

In the 1700s, the geologist James Hutton identified a formation of rocks that would transform how we think about time. In the first of three films about "deep time", journalist and author Richard ...