Who was a naturalist contemporary of James Hutton?
Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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Answer
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and philosopher. He was a contemporary of James Hutton, and the two men shared a common interest in geology. Buffon was a proponent of Theory of catastrophism, which held that the Earth had been shaped by a series of sudden, violent events. Hutton, on the other hand, argued for a gradual, uniformitarian process of geological change.
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