Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

first publication date:  1987
original title:  Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
original language:  English
main subject:  history of geology
followed by:  An Urchin in the Storm

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 James Hutton and Charles Lyell. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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