On the Edge of Eternity : The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early ...

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On the Edge of EternityThe Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe\nAuthor(s): Ivano Dal Prete\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780190678890, 978-0190678890\nSynopsis\nIt is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the discovery of geological time in the eighteenth century came as a momentous breakthrough that shook the faith in the historical accuracy of the Bible. Historians of science, mainstream geologists, and Young Earth creationists alike all share the assumption that the notion of an ancient Earth was highly heterodox in the pre-modern era. The old age of the world is regarded as the offspring of a secularized science.\n\nIn this book, Ivano Dal Prete radically revises the commonplace history of deep time in Western culture. He argues that the chronology .