Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth And Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

Gould, Stephen Jay.

ISBN 10: 0140135723 / ISBN 13: 9780140135725

Editore: Penguin, 1991

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• Titolo: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth And Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140135723
• ISBN 13: 9780140135725
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 300 grammi

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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).