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Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time

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Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time

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Gould, Stephen Jay

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Science: General Issues, Theory of the earth, Sacred theory of the earth, Geological time, Theory the earth, Burnet, Thomas,, Science/Mathematics, Science, Lyell, Charles,, Hutton, James,, History, Earth Sciences - Geology, Science / General, Burnet, Thomas, Study and teaching, General, Telluris theoria sacra, 1635?-1715., 1726-1797., Hutton, James, Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715, Hutton, James, 1726-1797, Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875, Lyell, Charles, Burnet, Thomas, (1635-1715), Hutton, James, (1726-1797), Lyell, Charles, (1797-1875), Géochronologie, Temps (philosophie)
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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Internet Archive
Language
English
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
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Edition
11th print.
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