Questioning the millennium
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Questioning the millennium As always, Gould brings into his essays a wide range of compelling historical and scientific fact, including a brief history of millennial fevers, calendrical traditions, and idiosyncrasies from around the world; the story of a sixth-century monk whose errors in chronology plague us even today; and the heroism of a young autistic man who has developed the extraordinary ability to calculate dates deep into the past and the future. Ranging over a wide terrain of phenomena--from the arbitrary regularities of human calendars to the unpredictability of nature, from the vagaries of pop culture to the birth of Christ--Stephen Jay Gould holds up the mirror to our millennial passions to reveal our foibles, absurdities, and uniqueness--in other words, our humanity.
Caractéristiques
- Auteur
- Stephen Jay Gould
- NUR-code
- 910
- Taal
- en
- Uitgever
- Harmony
- Uitvoering
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780224043892
Référence: 9780224043892