2007年8月9日 星期四

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: 一本約20年前買過 讀過的書

封面是 Burnet's Frontispiece 21 此圖耶穌 Alpha Mu Omega (這句在
Hampton's Throne and Burners Frontispiece 181都出現 意義詳下

邊為過去 左邊為未來



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獻詞拉丁文
sine quibus non
In the most brutal, literal sense.


(Sine qua non - n., pl. sine qua nons; also sine quibus non [literally, without which not] something absolutely indispensable or essential. )


Alpha & Omega
Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and thus refer to the eternal nature of Christ.

Rev. 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." (NIV)

Season: Advent, Ascension Sunday

啟示的要義 

  1. 看,他乘著雲彩降來,眾目都要瞻望他,連那些刺透了他的人,也要瞻望他,地上的各種族都要哀悼他。的確這樣。阿們。
  2. 「我是『阿耳法』和『敖默加』,」那今在、昔在及將來永在的全能者上主天主這樣說。

Alpha and Omega(Gr.):始和終;原始與終結;阿耳法和敖默加:為希臘字母表之首尾兩字母「Α」和「Ω」;教會以此兩字母來代表天主,因祂是一切世物的起始與終結(默一8),聖史若望並用以指稱基督(默廿二13)。

Alpha Mu Omega
These letters are the initials for the Greeks words for "yesterday, today and forever," emphasizing not only Jesus' eternal nature, but His presence with us.
Hebr. 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NIV)
  1. 你們應該記念那些曾給你們講過天主的道理,作過你們領袖的人,默想他們的生死,好效法他們的信德。
  2. 耶穌基督昨天、今天、直到永遠,常是一 樣。







Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
by Stephen Jay Gould

About this title: The author of The Flamingo's Smile and Ever Since Darwin explores here the discovery of "deep time", the vastness of earth's history--a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor. Illustrated.
Note: This is a

顯示的各頁可以讓你感覺一下

Contents
1. The Discovery of Deep Time 1

Deep Time 1

Myths of Deep Time 3

On Dichotomy 8

Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 10

Caveats 16
2. Thomas Burners Battleground of Time 21

Burnet's Frontispiece 21

The Burnet of Textbooks 23

Science versus Religion? 24

Burnet's Methodology 26

The Physics of History 30

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Conflict and Resolution 41

Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 51


3. James Hutton's Theory of the Earth: A Machine without a History 61

Picturing the Abyss of Time 61

Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time 63

The Hutton of Legend 66

Hutton Disproves His Legend 70

The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity 73

Hutton's Paradox: Or, Why the Discoverer of Deep Time Denied History 80



Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's Motto 92

Playfair: A Boswell with a Difference 93

A Word in Conclusion and Prospect 96
4. Charles Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle 99

The Case of Professor Ichthyosaurus 99

Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard 104

Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph: The Miscastingof Catastrophism 115

Lyell's Defense of Time's Cycle 132

Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle 150

The Partial Unraveling of Lyell's World View 167

Epilogue 178
5. Boundaries 181

Hampton's Throne and Burners Frontispiece 181

The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles 191


Bibliography 211

Index 217


The Throne


Jan. 1, 2000, Fear Not!, Smithsonian

Fig. 1: The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, on exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. From Jan, 1, 2000, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The Throne is a magnificent work of religious art. It consists of around 180 pieces. The many winged figures give a sense of exaltation. This photo can only suggest the impact of the original. Remarkably, this work of art was built, as the essay below by Mike Walsh notes, "from a very select collection of junk, including old furniture, burned-out light bulbs, jelly jars, carpet cylinders, desk blotters, cardboard, and foil. All the separate pieces are precariously held together with glue, tape, tacks, and pins." And it was built by an even more remarkable man.

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