Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time / Stephen Jay Gould.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jerusalem-Harvard lecturesPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987Edition: [1st edition]Description: xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674891988
  • 9780674891982
  • 0674891996
  • 9780674891999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Time's arrow, time's cycle.NLM classification:
  • 551.7 G698t
Contents:
The discovery of deep time -- Thomas Burnet's battleground of time -- James Hutton's theory of the earth : a machine without a history -- Charles Lyell, historian of time's cycle -- Boundaries.
Summary: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QE508 .G68 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000053591

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.

The discovery of deep time -- Thomas Burnet's battleground of time -- James Hutton's theory of the earth : a machine without a history -- Charles Lyell, historian of time's cycle -- Boundaries.

Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.

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Philosophical study on the cyclic vs. linear nature of time over geolocical timespans

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