On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - Dal Prete, Ivano (Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health Program, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health Program, Yale University) - Books - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780190678890 - November 14, 2022
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On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Dal Prete, Ivano (Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health Program, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health Program, Yale University)

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On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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.

320 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 14, 2022
ISBN13 9780190678890
Publishers Oxford University Press Inc
Pages 368
Dimensions 241 × 166 × 34 mm   ·   636 g
Language English  

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