a15 Paradigm of the natural sciences
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1 T or F: Byron was impatient with obsfucation.
2 T or F: A paradigm is a principle that underlies a whole branch of philosophy.
3 T or F: Adam Smith and Joseph Black caroused with Hutton at the Oyster Club.
4 T or F: John Clerk of Eldin often geologized with Hutton in the field.
5 T or F: Like Werner who was his contemporary, Hutton wrote little but lectured to many at the university.
6 T or F: The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. (Hutton)
7 T or F: St. Augustine taught that time, often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing.
8 T or F: Kirwan championed Hutton’s Theory of the Earth.

Byron, Coleridge 029-01-01 029-01-02
Paradigm 029-02-01	Paradigm first appeared in English in the 15th century, meaning “an example or pattern.”
Uniformitarianism Hutton, 1785 029-03-01 029-03-02 (Roman numerals) Lyell, 1830 029-03-03 029-03-04
Adam Smith 029-04-01 029-04-02	In Edinburgh Smith established a weekly dining club, the Oyster Club, which met on Fridays at a tavern in Grassmarket.
Joseph Black 029-05-01	His thesis published in 1756 under the title Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime, and Some Other Alcaline Substances sounded the death knell of the phlo-gis-ton theory.
John Clerk of Eldin 029-06-01
In Hutton’s words: 029-07-01	The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. What more can we require? Nothing but time.
St. Augustine 029-09-03
Hutton's critic, Kirwan 029-09-01 029-09-02