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

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

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  • ISBN: 0674891988 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780674891982 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0674891996 (paper)
  • ISBN: 9780674891999 (paper)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Geological time > Study and teaching > History.
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.
Géochronologie > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.

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AMC Mondor-Eagen Library QE508 .G68 1987 (Text) 30464000336323 General Available -


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