Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition - Softcover

Gould, Stephen Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674061640 ISBN 13: 9780674061644

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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?

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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674061640
• ISBN 13: 9780674061644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224