Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth And Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time - Softcover

Stephen-jay-gould

 
9780140135725: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth And Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

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This excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past explores a central dichotomy between time's arrow (an unilinear Newtonian succession of unique events) and time's cycle (the recursive patterns that re-appear in a world that remains fundamentally unchanged).

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This excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past explores a central dichotomy between time's arrow (an unilinear Newtonian succession of unique events) and time's cycle (the recursive patterns that re-appear in a world that remains fundamentally unchanged).

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ISBN 10:  0674891988 ISBN 13:  9780674891982
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1987
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