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Gould provides a fascinating, informally written excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past. He explores a central dichotomy between time’s arrow (a unilinear Newtonian succession of unique events) and time’s cycle (the recursive patterns that reappear in a world that remains fundamentally unchanged)….
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 ...
- Stephen Jay Gould
- 1987
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...
4. Okt. 2012 · Language. 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.
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5. Juli 2006 · Employing Stephen Jay Gould’s famous temporal metaphors — time’s arrow and time’s cycle — Coclanis traces the trajectory of globalization, arguing that globalization has ebbed and flowed in the region over the centuries, that globalization is best viewed as a process rather than a permanent condition, and that its effects have differed considerably across space and over time ...
15. Apr. 1987 · Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Stephen Jay Gould. 3.91. 434 ratings27 reviews. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most.
