SWhat changed
Earth history became explainable through continuing natural process cycles operating over deep time.
Scientific scope
The 1788 Transactions paper; later uniformitarian terminology and Lyell's synthesis are excluded.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. This is the 1788 Transactions paper. Later terminology such as uniformitarianism and Lyell’s synthesis should not be projected back as identical authorship.
Contributors
- James Hutton · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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