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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists ...
Geological time, its enormousness and humankind’s place in it, is the great intellectual contribution of geology. In his latest book, Stephen Jay Gould shows us how its discovery embraced both time’s cycle and time’s arrow, and how, because these metaphors went unrecognized, we misinterpret geologic discoveries.
Oct 4, 2012 · 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. Access-restricted-item.
Jan 1, 1988 · In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology’s signal contribution to human thought―the discovery of “deep time,” the vastness of earth’s history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor.
In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology’s signal contribution to human thought—the discovery of “deep time,” the vastness of earth’s history, a history so ancient...
Book Reviews. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Stephen Jay Gould. Kenneth L. Taylor. PDF PLUS. More.
This theory holds that few evolutionary changes occur among organisms over long periods of time, and then a brief period of rapid changes occurs before another long, stable period of equilibrium...
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