english: It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur.
non_english: Sve do početka XIX veka kada nam je veo s očiju skinut, prvo objavljivanjem "Teorije o Zemlji" Džejmsa Hatona, u kojoj nam je saopštio da Zemlja ne otkriva trag svog početka i nikakav nagoveštaj kraja; a potom, štampanjem mape Britanije Vilijama Smita, prve geološke mape na nivou države, pruživši nam prvi put predvidljiv uvid u to gde se određeni tipovi stena mogu naći.