| 1. | The Discovery of Deep Time | 1 |
| Deep Time 1 | |
| Myths of Deep Time 3 | |
| On Dichotomy 8 | |
| Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 10 | |
| Caveats 16 | |
| 2. | Thomas Burners Battleground of Time | 21 |
| Burnet's Frontispiece 21 | |
| The Burnet of Textbooks 23 | |
| Science versus Religion? 24 | |
| Burnet's Methodology 26 | |
| The Physics of History 30 | |
| Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Conflict and Resolution 41 | |
| Burnet and Steno as Intellectual Partners in the Light | |
| of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle 51 | |
| 3. | James Hutton's Theory of the Earth: A Machine | |
| without a History | 61 |
| Picturing the Abyss of Time 61 | |
| Hutton's World Machine and the Provision of Deep Time 63 | |
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The Hutton of Legend 66 |
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| Hutton Disproves His Legend 70 | |
| The Sources of Necessary Cyclicity 73 | |
| Hutton's Paradox: Or, Why the Discoverer of Deep Time | |
| Denied History 80 | |
| Borges's Dilemma and Hutton's Motto 92 | |
| Playfair: A Boswell with a Difference 93 | |
| A Word in Conclusion and Prospect 96 | |
