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Science 27 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5799, pp. 596 - 597
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120239
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Humanistic and Religious Foundations of Deep Time

Naomi Oreskes

Bursting the Limits of Time
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
by Martin J. S. Rudwick
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 732 pp. $35, £28.50. ISBN 0-226-73111-1.
The author offers a comprehensive and engaging account of the emergence of the recognition of Earth's long history during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The reviewer is in the Science Studies Program, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0104, USA. E-mail: noreskes{at}ucsd.edu

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