Deep Time: A Literary History Heringman Noah
Deep Time: A Literary History Heringman Noah How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this…
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Deep Time: A Literary History Heringman Noah
How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record. Heringman, examining stories about the deep past by visionary thinkers ranging from William Blake to Charles Darwin, challenges the conventional wisdom that the idea of deep time came forth fully formed from the modern science of geology. Their ideas about "the abyss of time" created a way to think about the prehistoric before it was possible to assign dates to the fossil record.
Instead, he argues, it has a rich imaginative
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