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by Loren Eiseley
© 1958 by Loren Eiseley
To Carl
Frederick Wittke distinguished historian and friend of those whom
history has forgotten this book is dedicated
The Firmament of Time, by Loren Eiseley
The Invisible
Pyramid -- A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century, by Loren Eiseley
The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley
Table of Contents:
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Inside Cover
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I. The Age of Discovery
The Voyagers -- The Two Ladders and the Scale of Being -- The Baconian
and Humanistic Traditions in Natural History -- Linnaeus -- The Fixity
of Species
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II. The Time Voyagers
The Extraordinary Voyage -- Benoit de Maillet -- The Comte de Buffon --
Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck -- Early Glimpses of Ecological
Adaptation
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III. The Pirate Chart
Time and Organic Change -- Pagan and Christian Time -- The Chart -- The
Rise of Catastrophism -- James Hutton's World Machine and
Uniformitarianism -- William Smith -- Cuvier: the Magician of the
Charnel House
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IV. Progressionism and
Evolution
Geological Prophecy -- Sir Charles Lyell and the Re-emergence of
Uniformitarianism -- Non-progressionism
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V. The Minor Evolutionists
Branching Evolution -- William Wells -- Patrick Matthew and Robert
Chambers
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VI. The Voyage of the Beagle
The Age of Giants -- The Influence of Erasmus Darwin -- Darwin's
Intellectual Background -- The Voyage -- South America -- The Galapagos
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VII. The Making of the Origin
"The Bridgewater Treatises -- Darwin and Malthus -- The Law of
Divergence -- The First Essay Attempts -- Darwin and Design -- Darwin
and Lamarck
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VIII. The Priest Who Held the
Key to Evolution
Gregor Mendel -- Pre-Mendelian Genetics -- Pangenesis -- Artificial
Selection and the Evolutionists -- Mendel's Contribution --
Johannsen and Variation
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IX. Darwin and the Physicists
Kelvin and Residual Heat -- The Biological Retreat -- De Vries and
Saltatory Evolution -- Time and Radioactivity
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X. The Reception of the First
Missing Links
The Evolutionists Turn to Man -- Ape and Hottentot -- The Microcephali
-- The Descent into the Past -- The Java Ape Man
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XI. Wallace and the Brain
The Darwinian Bias -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Darwin and Human
Evolution -- Degeneration or Development -- Wallace and Human Antiquity
-- The Concept of Latency -- Brains and Time
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XII. Conclusion
Time: Cyclic and Historic -- The Pre-Darwinian Era -- The Struggle of
the Parts -- Evolution and Human Culture -- The Role of Indeterminism
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Glossary
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Suggested Reading
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