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

Gould, Stephen Jay

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9780674061644: Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition
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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).

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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
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  • 3.67 out of 5 stars
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