TY  - GEN
AU  - Gould, Stephen Jay
TI  - Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of Geological time
SN  - 9780674891999
U1  - 551.70109 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvard University Press
N1  - Contents
1. The Discovery of Deep Time           1
Deep Time 1
Myths of Deep Time 3
On Dichotomy 8
Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 10
Caveats 16
2. Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time 21
Burner's Frontispiece 21
The Burnet of Textbooks 23
Science versus Religion? 24
Burner's Methodology 26
The Physics of History 30
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Conflict and Resolution 41
Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 51
3. James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth: A Machine without a History
Picturing the Abyss of Time 61
Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time 63
The Hutton of Legend 66
Hutton Disproves His Legend 70
The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity 73
Hutton's Paradox: Or Why the Discoverer of Deep Time Denied History 80
Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's Motto 92
Playfair: A Boswell with a Difference 93 ~
A Word in Conclusion and Prospect 96
4. Charles Lyell, Historian of Time’ s Cycle 99
The Case of Professor Ichthyosaurus 99
Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard 104
Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph: The Miscasting
of Catastrophism 115
Lyell's Défense of Time's Cycle 132
Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle 150
The Partial Unravelling of Lyell's World View 167
Epilogue 178
5. Boundaries 181
Hampton's Throne and Burnet's Frontispiece 181
The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles 191
Bibliography          211
Index       217

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