Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) - Stephen Jay Gould
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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 (1680–1690), James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell’s three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833).
Gould’s major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories―in this case the insight provided by ...
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 (1680–1690), James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell’s three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833).
Gould’s major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories―in this case the insight provided by ...
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2001 Uitgever: Harvard University Press 222 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674891996 ISBN-13: 9780674891999Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, 222 pp., some black-and-white ill, bibliography, index, 15x22x1,5 cm light pencil underlining on some pages, in very good condition. [Auteur: Gould, Stephen Jay] [Uitgever: Harvard University Press: Cambridge (MA), 2001 (11th printing)] [Titel: Time's Arrow Time's Cycle: Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time]
