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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time is a 1987 history of geology by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author offers a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of the English theologian Thomas Burnet, and the Scottish geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell.
Hutton's Unconformity at Jedburgh. Above: John Clerk of Eldin's 1787 illustration. Below: 2003 photograph. Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, [1] is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the ...
Chinese uniformity (Chinese: 大一統) is a term referring to the traditional phenomenon and political thought of uniformity and unification in the Chinese history.Since the Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 BC –771 BC) there has been a uniformity of various systems in the land of China, including the uniformity of the calendar, the uniformity of decrees, the uniformity of thought, the ...
It is a concept of "unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation" [1] that shifts focus from unity based on a mere tolerance of physical, cultural, linguistic, social, religious, political, ideological and/or psychological differences towards a more complex unity based on an understanding that difference enriches human ...
The concept of unity in variety was further developed in the early 1700s by Francis Hutcheson, who declared that excitement is generated by "Uniformity amidst Variety", which generates a "disinterested" pleasure (i.e., the one with no regard for practical issues, like existence of the considered object or the wants of the body, like thirst).
A similar concept is homogeneity. Isotropic quadratic form A quadratic form q is said to be isotropic if there is a non-zero vector v such that q(v) = 0; such a v is an isotropic vector or null vector. In complex geometry, a line through the origin in the direction of an isotropic vector is an isotropic line. Isotropic coordinates
The Act of Uniformity Amendment Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 35), sometimes called the Shortened Services Act, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that amended some of the provisions of the English Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 4). It allowed certain modifications [2] a shortened form of Morning and Evening Prayer on week days
The Act of Uniformity itself is one of four crucial pieces of legislation, known as the Clarendon Code, named after Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles II's Lord Chancellor. [5] They are: The Corporation Act 1661 – This first of the four statutes which made up the Clarendon Code required all municipal officials to take Anglican communion ...