Questioning The Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

 
9780099765813: Questioning The Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099765810 ISBN 13: 9780099765813
Verlag: Vintage, 1998

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Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation - if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present day usage and tackles the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or at the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion to impose our time-schemes on the universe and wonders how far can we go in applying our mathematical principles to nature. Existing methods of calculating time are all flawed to some extent and yet the complexities of lunar months, leap years, and the calculation of dates such as Easter, are part and parcel of our fascination with calendrics as both a hobby and an occupation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099765810
ISBN 13 
9780099765813
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208
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