Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | History of geology |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 222 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-674-89198-8 |
| LC Class | QE508 .G68 1987 |
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.