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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).
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Stephen Jay Gould
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- Released
- 1990
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140135723
- ISBN13
- 9780140135725
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Science & Math, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Science, Geology & Mineralogy, Geology, History of Science
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- 3.95 out of 5
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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).