The Discovery of Time

Author: Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield
Publisher: Pelican (Penguin Books), 1967
Condition: Softcover, markings on first page, yellowed pages, interior clean
Discovery of Time is a broad and passable introduction to the history of science. It’s one part of a three-book series that covers the same topic through three distinct lenses: time, matter, and the heavens. Toulmin and Goodfield review early ideas about the origins and arc of the universe, the nature of its inhabitants, and provide compelling if compressed accounts of the beginnings of modern paleontology, geology, history, evolutionary biology, and cosmology.