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Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time
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Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
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- Creator
- Stephen Jay Gould
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- English
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987
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- xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674891988, 9780674891982, 0674891996, 9780674891999
- OCLC
- ocm14818882
- 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