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- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle : Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
- Publication Name
- Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle
- Title
- Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle
- Subtitle
- Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0674891996
- EAN
- 9780674891999
- ISBN
- 9780674891999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Science
- Release Date
- 01/01/1988
- Release Year
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Series
- Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Features
- Reprint
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Evolution, Earth Sciences / Geology, History
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Stephen Jay Gould's subject is nothing less than geology's signal contribution to human thought--the discovery of "deep time," the vastness of earth's history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674891996
ISBN-13
9780674891999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1119166
Product Key Features
Book Title
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle : Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Earth Sciences / Geology, History
Publication Year
1988
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Qe508.G68
Edition Description
Reprint
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The blasphemous and dwarfing revelation of 'deep time' forms the underlying drama of [this book]...In the monthly essays with which Gould has been amusing and edifying the readers of Natural History magazine for some fifteen years, he now and then shows a surprisingly fond acquaintance with the debunked and forgotten theories that litter the history of science: the present book, an expanded version of lectures given at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, considers three early British geologists--Thomas Brunet (1635-1715), James Hutton (1726-1797) and Charles Lyell (1797-1875)--who he feels have been misrepresented in the contemporary textbook version of geology's progress...Gould's lucid animated style, rarely slowed by even a touch of the ponderous, leads us deftly through the labyrinth of faded debates and perceptions...Gould, with a passion that approaches the lyrical, argues for a retrospective tolerance in science and against fashions that would make heroes and villains of men equally committed to the cause of truth and equally immersed in the metaphors and presumptions of their culture and time., What you read in textbooks and what your teachers told you is really wrong, Gould expounds. All this is a lot of fun, and there is such history and philosophy to intellectually chew on in this book...As we have come to expect from Gould, this book is interesting and clear., This new work arises from Gould's delivery of the first series of Harvard-Jerusalem lectures presented at Hebrew University in April 1985. It is a highly individualistic document (Gould admits it to be 'a quest for personal understanding') and sometimes discursive (the book opens within the works of Sigmund Freud and closes outside the south front of the Cathedral of our Lady of Chartres), but it is always highly readable...Vastly entertaining and stimulating...Gould's subject here is geological time; he is concerned with aspects of the discovery of what John McPhee has appropriately termed 'deep time'...Underlying the entire book, however, lurks yet another and still deeper theme which should commend the work to a readership far wider than historians of ideas and of science. Gould both explicitly and implicitly demonstrates that science is a creation of human minds which are ever feeling the influence of pressures far removed from those natural phenomena that are laid out before the scientist's gaze., Gould provides a fascinating, informally written excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past. He explores a central dichotomy between time's arrow (a unilinear Newtonian succession of unique events) and time's cycle (the recursive patterns that reappear in a world that remains fundamentally unchanged)...With its accessible style and its range of subjects, the book will be read by the same wide audience that has enjoyed Gould's earlier collections of essays...[The book] carries an enthusiasm, intelligence, and sense of purpose that render it a worthy follower to Gould's earlier work. Entertaining, sometimes annoying, highly personal, but never dull, this is the shortest of Gould's books, but also his most adventurous and experimental., Geological time, its enormousness and humankind's place in it, is the great intellectual contribution of geology. In his latest book, Stephen Jay Gould shows us how its discovery embraced both time's cycle and time's arrow, and how, because these metaphors went unrecognized, we misinterpret geologic discoveries. Gould's style will be familiar to his readers--the historical snippets, the dichotomies, the odd and unusual, the common, the startling, and the contrary are all here., In [this book], Gould has turned to the history of geology, a field very close to his main concerns as a paleontologist. He offers a revisionist historical account of the discovery of geological time. If anyone suspects that Gould has at last written a book on a rather dry historical question, I should emphasize that he has hit upon a rich subject and has written a highly perceptive and fascinating book. Furthermore, his latest volume offers his readers a valuable insight into his wider intellectual vision, providing them with a literary blueprint for a number of the basic concerns that unite his many essays and books. To understand Gould one should read his new book., In his painstaking yet engaging manner, Gould examines three central documents in the evolution of our notions about geological time. These works have been connected wrongly, Gould finds, in an arrowlike progression of their own, from religious notions of Earth's creation as God's fast work to empirically based theories of slow, steady changes...Gould's chosen task is significant nonetheless--setting the record of that discovery arrow-straight. He's done that in his unusual book with his usual charm and erudition.
Copyright Date
1987
Dewey Decimal
551.7/01/09
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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Gould's titles are sometimes funny and you have to be used to him for that. The titles do get worked into things in the text though.
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