TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dal Prete,Ivano
TI  - On the edge of eternity: the antiquity of the earth in medieval and early modern Europe 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190678920
AV  - QE508 
U1  - 551.7010940902 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Geological time
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Science
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Earth (Planet)
KW  - Age
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678890.001.0001
ER  -