Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time / Stephen Jay Gould.
Material type: TextSeries: Jerusalem-Harvard lecturesPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987Edition: [1st edition]Description: xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
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- 9780674891982
- 0674891996
- 9780674891999
- Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Telluris theoria sacra
- Hutton, James, 1726-1797. Theory of the earth
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
- Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Telluris theoria sacra
- Hutton, James, 1726-1797. Theory of the earth
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
- Theory of the earth (Hutton, James)
- Telluris theoria sacra (Burnet, Thomas)
- Geological time -- Study and teaching -- History
- Geological time
- Myth geological time
- Timekeeper (general)
- Philosophy
- 551.7 G698t
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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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