The Abyss of Time
Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 087477389X
ISBN-13: 9780874773897
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: J.P. Tarcher
Published date: 1986
Edition: 1th edition
Pages: 251
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