The Age of the World: Moses to DarwinAn extension of [the author's] dissertation, Revolution in the concept of historical time: a study in the relationship between Biblical chronology and the rise of modern science. Johns Hopkins University, 1957. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Historicism and the Scientific Revolution | 36 |
Time and World Process in 18thCentury Outlook | 102 |
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