ISBN10: 0674891996, ISBN13: 9780674891999, [publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass] Softcover Paperback. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field.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. He follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years: Thomas Burnet's four-volume Sacred Theory of the Earth (16801690), James Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell's three-volume Principles of Geology (18301833).Gould's major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories-in this case the insight provided by the oldest traditional dichotomy of Judeo-Christian thought: the directionality of time's arrow or the immanence of time's cycle. Gould follows these metaphors through these three great documents and shows how their influence, more than the empirical observation of rocks in the ...
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Trade paperback edition, published by Harvard University Press, Date: 1988. An in-depth discussion of the concept of Deep Time, with a focus on the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Carles Lyell. This copy is a third printing of the first edition. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. There are no creases to the cover or spine. Small impression mark on the front cover, about 2" long on the left side near the spine. Small closed tear at the bottom edge, about 1/4" long. Edges of the text block are clean. Binding is tight. Not a remainder, not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory. 1988. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674891996 9780674891999 [US]

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