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In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life magazine marking the century's midpoint, Stephen Jay Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millennium. In this beautiful inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with his readers. Refreshingly reasoned, erudite, and absorbing, the book asks and answers the three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event.
First, what exactly is this concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? How did the name for a future thousand-year reign of Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history?
When does the new millennium begin: January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2001? (Although seemingly trivial, the debate over this issue tells an intriguing story about the cultural history of the twentieth century.) Finally, why must our calendars be so complex, leading to our search for arbitrary regularity, including a fascination with millennia?
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Calendar, Social aspects, Social aspects of Calendar, Two thousand, A.D., Tijdrekening, Calendrier, An 2000, Aspect social, Derde millennium, An deux mille, Vingt et unième siècle, Millennium, New York Times reviewed, Millennium (Eschatology), Psychological aspects, Chronology, Religious aspects, Vingt-et-unieme siecle, Previsions, Millenarisme, Chronologie historique, TempsTimes
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Questioning the millennium: a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown
2011, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
1999, Penguin Random House
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Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Revised Edition)
August 24, 1999, Harmony
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0609605410 9780609605417
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Millenium: histoire naturelle et artificielle de l'an 2000
1998, Ed. du Seuil
in French
2020316102 9782020316101
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Questioning the millennium: a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown
1998, Vintage
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0099283328 9780099283324
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Questioning the millennium: a rationalist's guide to the meanings of time and its passage
1997, Harmony Books
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Questioning the millennium: a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown
1997, Harmony Books
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L'ecrivain scientifique tente ici de comprendre comment un simple probleme de calendrier a pu donner lieu a tant d'elucubrations irrationnelles. Il est question "de la perception des nombres ronds, du soleil et de la lune, de l'age de la terre et de la naissance de Jesus-Christ", pour apprecier le retour cyclique des vieilles questions irresolues que provoquera immanquablement l'an 2000.
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