The Dark Abyss of Time
Subtitle: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico
Contributors: Lydia G. Cochrane (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 15, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780226728322
Subjects: Palaeontology; Philosophy of science; World history; Intellectual History; History; History - General History; History: World; Science/Mathematics; General; History / General
First sentence: At the beginning of the seventeenth century "the great question, now so much controverted in the world," a question over which many a scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had labored, was summarized with great clarity by Robert Plot, the first director of the Ashmolean Museum and author of The Natural History of Oxford-Shire (1705).