Questioning the Millennium

A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition

Stephen Jay Gould (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2011
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-06164-4 (ISBN)

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Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ’s 1,000-year reign become a secular measure? And when exactly does the millennium begin—January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001?

Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (both from Harvard).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.10.2011
Zusatzinfo	20 halftones
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-674-06164-0 / 0674061640
ISBN-13	978-0-674-06164-4 / 9780674061644
Zustand	Neuware