Questioning The Millennium

ISBN-13: 9780099765813 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998

Stephen Jay Gould

Opis

Stephen Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium, describing how the meaning of the word has evolved to its modern usage, and tackling the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion to impose our time-schemes on the universe.

Recenzje

The approach of the millenium elicits all those responses in Stephen Jay Gould which make him today's finest spokesman for the joys of science. The rationalist in him is horrified yet fascinated by the tradition of "Apocalypse soon" prophecies...What is clear from this splendid book - crisp, clever and chirpy as ever - is that Stephen Jay Gould will go down as one of the real turns of the century. Roy Porter Independent

O autorze

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is the author of over twenty books, and received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He died in May 2002.