Reading the Earth: Vuillemin, Mantell, and the Victorian Invention of Deep Time
In 1788, James Hutton looked at a rock face at Siccar Point and discovered deep time. The Victorian geologists and illustrators who followed him — Vuillemin in France, Emslie and Reynolds in Britain — invented the visual language that made that discovery legible. This is the story of the geological cross-section and the two traditions that shaped it.
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