From the Preface: "How has the study of nature—from ancient times to our current era—shaped our perceptions of time and of durations of time?"

I have never read this before! I will give it a go!

(honestly, here in the preface it seems like he's taking a weirdly linear view of the whole thing, but I might be wrong there)

...why is this guy writing the tetragrammaton out every time

dedication

I put that badly: he's putting in the speculative vowels every time which is rather rude. sigh

But yeah, he's talking abt the textual history of the two most distinct accounts of creation in the Bible -

Never mind my toes are too cold for this. I'm going to warm them on my cat and read something else foe a bit.

Very fair

And it was free!

I... don't really mean posts like these as rec unless I explicitly say so.

I thought I would try this one. The cover is so beautiful! And I love geology

it was worth a shot!