Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time
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Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time
（Penguin books, Penguin science）
Penguin, 1990, c1987
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1987, and then: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1988. (Pelican books)
Bibliography: p. 211-215
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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).
目次
- The Discovery of Deep Time: Deep Time
- Myths of Deep Time
- On Dichotomy
- Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle
- Caveats. Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time: Burnets Frontispiece
- The Burnet of Textbooks
- Science versus Religion?
- Burnet's Methodology
- The Physics of History
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cynic - Conflict and Resolution
- Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle. James Hutton's Theory of the Earth - A Machine without a History: Picturing the Abyss of Time
- Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time
- The Hutton of Legend
- Hutton Disproves His Legend
- The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity
- Hutton's Paradox - Or, Why the Discoverer of Deep Time Denied History
- Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's Motto
- Playfair - A Boswell with a Difference
- A Word in Conclusion and Prospect. Charles Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle: The case of Professor Ichthyosaurus
- Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard
- Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph - The Miscasting of catastrophism
- Lyell's Defence of Time's Cycle
- Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle
- The Partial Unravelling of Lyell's World View. Boundaries: Hampton's Throne and Burnet's Frontispiece
- The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles.
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