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The Lost Millennium

History’s Timetables under Siege

Florin Diacu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2012 | second edition
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-0288-8 (ISBN)

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We measure history-its defining moments, landmark documents, and great figures-by dates. The French Revolution began in 1789, the Magna Carta was originally issued in 1215, and Julius Caesar died in the year 44 BC. What makes these dates correct, though? Is it possible that there is a massive gap in the historical record and that the calendar we use today is off by about 1,000 years? Sparked by a chance meeting at a conference in Mexico more than fifteen years ago, Florin Diacu sets off on a journey into the field of historical chronology to answer these fascinating questions. This book reads like a detective story, describing in vivid detail Diacu's adventure back in time as he explores the shocking theory of a lost millennium. He meets a colorful cast of characters along the way. Chief among them is Anatoli Fomenko, a Russian mathematician who supports drastically revising historical chronology based on his extensive research in ancient astronomy, linguistics, cartography, and a crucial manuscript by Ptolemy. Fomenko, however, is not the only one to puzzle over time. Isaac Newton, Voltaire, and Edmund Halley, among others, also enter into this captivating quest.
The Lost Millennium highlights the controversy surrounding the dating of ancient events, a fascinating tale full of mystery, debate, and excitement. Join the author as he pushes further and further in search of the truth.

Florin Diacu is a professor of mathematics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, author of Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe, Singularities of the N-body Problem: An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, and An Introduction to Differential Equations: Order and Chaos, and coauthor of Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability.

Introduction: Where Did the Time Go?
Part I: The Challenges of Historical Chronology
1. Catastrophes and Chaos
2. A New Science
3. Swan Song
Part II: Fomenko's Battle against Tradition
4. Historical Eclipses
5. The Moon and the Almagest
6. Ancient Kingdoms
7. Overlapping Dynasties
8. Secrets and Lies
Part III: Science Fights Back
9. Scientific Dating
10. Finding a Consensus
Afterword
Notes
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2012
Zusatzinfo	29 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-4214-0288-2 / 1421402882
ISBN-13	978-1-4214-0288-8 / 9781421402888
Zustand	Neuware