The Lost Millennium
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-0287-1 (ISBN)
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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 |
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Zusatzinfo | 29 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4214-0287-4 / 1421402874 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4214-0287-1 / 9781421402871 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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