kitaycheg Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Download Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution Book in PDF Format. Too Many Books Available in Our Site. In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this relatively brief period, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth-and the relatively recent arrival of human life. Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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