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  1. 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)….

  2. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish ...

  3. 1 de ene. de 1988 · 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)…

  4. In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his 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...

  5. 4 de oct. de 2012 · English. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index. The discovery of deep time -- Thomas Burnet's battleground of time -- James Hutton's theory of the Earth : a machine without a history -- Charles Lyell, historian of time's cycle -- Boundaries. Access-restricted-item.

  6. 15 de abr. de 1987 · Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle is Gould’s examination for the resistance to his theory of punctuated equilibrium (PE). An examination as to why most biologists cling to gradualism and view PE as anathema.

  7. 5 de jul. de 2006 · Employing Stephen Jay Gould’s famous temporal metaphors — time’s arrow and time’s cycle — Coclanis traces the trajectory of globalization, arguing that globalization has ebbed and flowed in the region over the centuries, that globalization is best viewed as a process rather than a permanent condition, and that its effects ...