Matt Wilson (@wilsonism.bsky.social)

"Winterer’s 📕 tells the story of the gradual discovery, spanning the early 19th c., that the Earth was millions, and even billions, of years older than the Bible would suggest.... Once the idea of deep time fully sunk in..., it transformed the way 🇺🇸s perceived their country and their continent."

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How Geology Shaped American Culture The discovery of ‘deep time’ in 19th-century America. https://www.chronicle.com/article/scratching-the-surface