On the edge of eternity

• Verfasst von: Dal Prete, Ivano [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: On the edge of eternity
• Titelzusatz: the antiquity of the earth in medieval and early modern Europe
• Verf.angabe: Ivano Dal Prete
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 2, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067892-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780190678890.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Science
• Sach-SW: Earth sciences
• K10plus-PPN: 1840595353
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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.