Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of Geological time (Record no. 70701)
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| fixed length control field | 01835 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674891999 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 551.70109 |
| Item number | GOU |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gould, Stephen Jay |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of Geological time |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Harvard University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2001 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv,222p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>1. The Discovery of Deep Time 1<br/>Deep Time 1<br/>Myths of Deep Time 3<br/>On Dichotomy 8<br/>Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 10<br/>Caveats 16<br/>2. Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time 21<br/>Burner's Frontispiece 21<br/>The Burnet of Textbooks 23<br/>Science versus Religion? 24<br/>Burner's Methodology 26<br/>The Physics of History 30<br/>Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Conflict and Resolution 41<br/>Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 51<br/>3. James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth: A Machine without a History<br/>Picturing the Abyss of Time 61<br/>Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time 63<br/>The Hutton of Legend 66<br/>Hutton Disproves His Legend 70<br/>The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity 73<br/>Hutton's Paradox: Or Why the Discoverer of Deep Time Denied History 80<br/>Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's Motto 92<br/>Playfair: A Boswell with a Difference 93 ~<br/>A Word in Conclusion and Prospect 96<br/>4. Charles Lyell, Historian of Time’ s Cycle 99<br/>The Case of Professor Ichthyosaurus 99<br/>Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard 104<br/>Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph: The Miscasting<br/>of Catastrophism 115<br/>Lyell's Défense of Time's Cycle 132<br/>Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle 150<br/>The Partial Unravelling of Lyell's World View 167<br/>Epilogue 178<br/>5. Boundaries 181<br/>Hampton's Throne and Burnet's Frontispiece 181<br/>The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles 191<br/>Bibliography 211<br/>Index 217<br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FA |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 23/03/2023 | Alpha Book Co. | 2190.78 | 4 | 551.70109 GOU | 024735 | 04/12/2023 | 14/07/2023 | 2920.60 | 23/03/2023 | Book |