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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

Overview

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 geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell.

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Related ideas

• Thomas Kuhn
• Stephen Jay Gould
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Uniformitarianism
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Charles Darwin
• Great Year
• Theory of the Earth

Place in the tradition

Part of Uniformitarianism.

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