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

Gould, Stephen Jay

Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time / Stephen Jay Gould. - xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Jerusalem-Harvard lectures . - Jerusalem-Harvard lectures. .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 211-215.

0674891988 (alk. paper)

86029485


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QE508 / .G68 1987

551.7/01/09