It is hard to imagine now, but geology excited the nineteenth century - positively gripped it - in a way that no science ever had before or would again.
Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and inispired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper.
Question
Has science lost its interest to young ones? Why is it that we have lost interest like there was before? Where has our interest gone? In the reading why did Hutton wrote his findings in a way that no one understood? in the second chapter why didn't anyone took interest in the bone that was toss aside? How would history change if someone taken interest in the bone from the beginning?
Comment
From the first article I find it very interesting how bad Hutton's writing were and how after his dead Playfair "produced a simplified exposition" of Hutton's work. The simplified xplaniation on Hutton's findings about how the marine findings had risen up with the mountains itself instead, contradicting other people's belief that the sea levels had changed.
