The Discovery of Deep Time / 1: |
Deep Time Myths of Deep Time On Dichotomy |
Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle Caveats |
Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time Burner's Frontispiece / 2: |
The Burnet of Textbooks Science versus Religion? Burnet's Methodology |
The Physics of History Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Conflict and Resolution |
Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle |
James Hutton's Theory of the Earth: A Machine without a History Picturing the Abyss of Time / 3: |
Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time |
The Hutton of Legend Hutton Disproves His Legend |
The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity |
Hutton's Paradox: Or, Why the Discoverer of Deep Time |
Denied History Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's |
Motto Playfair: A Boswell with a Difference A Word in Conclusion and Prospect |
Charles Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle / 4: |
The Case of Professor Ichthyosaurus Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph: The Miscasting of Catastrophism Lyell's |
Defense of Time's Cycle Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle |
The Partial Unraveling of Lyell's World View |
Epilogue |
Boundaries Hampton's Throne and Burnet's Frontispiece / 5: |
The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles |
Bibliography |
Index |
The Discovery of Deep Time / 1: |
Deep Time Myths of Deep Time On Dichotomy |
Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle Caveats |