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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The Discovery of TimeUser Review - Mary - GoodreadsAn extremely readable account of the development not only of ideas about the history of the natural world, but the idea that the natural world even has a history. This book was published in 1965, so ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesAnaximander ancient animals antiquity argued argument Aristotle Aristotle's astronomical beginning belief Biblical Buffon catastrophist century Charles Darwin Christian continuing cosmic history cosmology cosmos created Creation creatures Cuvier Darwin Descartes discoveries divine doctrine earlier Earth eighteenth-century epoch established eternal evidence evolution evolutionary existence explain fact forms fossil fundamental galaxies geologists Greek Heavens historians History of Nature human history Hutton ideas inheritance intellectual interpretation James Hutton Kant Lamarck laws of nature living Lucretius Lyell mathematical mediaeval men's Miletos natural philosophy natural selection natural world Newton once Order of Nature organic species Origin of Species Palermo Stone past pattern period philosophers physical physical cosmology plants Plato political present principles problem question R. G. Collingwood reason recognized scientific scientists sequence social society speculations stars strata succession theology theory things thought Thucydides Timaeus time-scale tion tradition uniformitarian universe variations Vico whole zoology References to this bookFrom other books
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