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Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time

by Stephen Jay Gould

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Accession 17086 ISBN 9780140228199 Publisher Penguin
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Gould explores the discovery of "deep time", a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor, and follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years. -- blurb

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