Ivano Dal Prete (Medicin Senior Lecturer in the History of Science

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On the Edge of Eternity

The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Beschreibung

This revisionist work challenges the assumption that deep time was "discovered" during the Enlightenment by showing that the possibility of an old or even eternal Earth circulated freely in medieval and early modern Europe, even in popular works intended for a large public, and that it was common to deny any geological role to the biblical Flood.

Autor

Ivano Dal Prete is a senior lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine Program at Yale University. He has published a book on the scientific culture of eighteenth-century Venice in Italian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 166mm x 241mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780190678890
• ISBN-10: 0190678895
• Artikelnr.: 63926363