《时间之箭，时间之环》内容简介
本书探讨的主题是地质学对人类思想的重大贡献——“深时”的发现及其理论渊源。
地球历史是一段古老、浩瀚而我们只能通过隐喻来理解的历史。本书围绕“时间之箭”（叙事历史，方向性和独特性）和“时间之环”（内在规律，周期和重复）的二分法，结合图像学的阐释，重新审视和解读了“深时”思想在西方地质学领域三位先驱及其经典著作——托马斯·伯内特的《地球的神圣理论》、詹姆斯·赫顿的《地球理论》和查尔斯·莱尔的《地质学原理》，由此重构了地球历史的发展脉络。
作者简介
斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（StephenJayGould，1941—2002），哈佛大学教授，著名进化论科学家、古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家，享誉世界的反伪科学斗士，百科全书式的真正大师。他和奈尔斯·埃尔德雷奇于1972年共同提出点断平衡理论，对达尔文进化论进行了修正。美国麦克阿瑟奖首批获奖者之一，2008年被追授达尔文-华莱士奖章。
代表作有《自达尔文以来》（1977）、《熊猫的拇指》（1980）、《火烈鸟的微笑》（1983）、《时间之箭，时间之环》（1988）、《奇妙的生命》（1989）、《干草堆中的恐龙》（1995）、《生命的壮阔》（1996）、《达·芬奇的贝壳山和沃尔姆斯会议》（1998）、《时代的岩石》（1999）、《彼岸》（2002）、《进化论的结构》（2002）、《刺猬、狐狸与博士的印痕》（2003）等。
The Arrow of Time, the Ring of Time
This book explores the major contribution of geology to human thought - the discovery of "deep time" and its theoretical origins.
The history of the Earth is an ancient, vast history that we can only understand through metaphor. The book revolves around the dichotomy of the "arrow of time" (narrative history, directionality, and uniqueness) and the "ring of time" (inherent laws, cycles, and repetition), combined with iconographic interpretation, This paper re-examines and interprets the three pioneers of "deep time" thought in the field of western geology and their classic works - Thomas Burnett's "Divine Theory of the Earth", James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" and Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology", thus reconstructing the development of the history of the earth.
About the author
StephenJayGould (1941-2002) was a professor at Harvard University, a renowned evolutionary scientist, paleontologist, historian of science, and scientific essayist, a world-renowned crusader against pseudoscience, and a true master of the encyclopedia. In 1972, he and Niles Eldredge proposed the point break equilibrium theory, a modification of Darwinian evolution. One of the first MacArthur Fellows in the United States, he was posthumously awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008.
He is best known for "Since Darwin" (1977), "Panda's Thumb" (1980), "The Smile of the Flamingo" (1983), "The Arrow of Time," The Ring of Time (1988), Wonderful Life (1989), Dinosaurs in the Haystack (1995), The Magnificence of Life (1996), Da Vinci's Shell Hill and the Meeting of Worms (1998), Rocks of the Age (1999), The Other Shore (2002), The Structure of Evolution (2002), Prints of the Hedgehog, the Fox and the Doctor (2003).
