Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is a history of geology by Stephen Jay Gould offering a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Charles Lyell.
Read more about Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Deep Time, Flimsy 'cardboard', Kuhnian Revolutions, Burnet, Hutton’s Endless Cycles of Deep Time, Lyell’s Uniformitarianism
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