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"L'écrivain scientifique tente ici de comprendre comment un simple problème de calendrier a pu donner lieu à tant d'élucubrations irrationnelles. Il est question "de la perception des nombres ronds, du soleil et de la lune, de l'âge de la terre et de la naissance de Jésus-Christ", pour apprécier le retour cyclique des vieilles questions irrésolues que provoquera immanquablement l'an 2000."
"A series of essays in which the author shares his interest and insights into the coming millenium, focusing on questions of calendrics, astronomy, and history."@en
"A series of essays in which the author shares his interest and insights into the coming millenium, focusing on questions of calendrics, astronomy, and history."
"Main description: 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?"
"In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. 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 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 Jesus 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 really 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.) And why must our calendars be so complex, leading to our search for arbitrary regularity, including a fascination with millennia' This revised edition begins with a new and extensive preface on a key subject not treated in the original version. 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. From the Hardcover edition."@en
"Artikelen over vragen die verband houden met het begin van het nieuwe millennium."

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"Millennium"
"Electronic books"@en
"Electronic books"

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"Questioning the Millennium A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition"
"Il millennio che non c'è : [guida per scettici a una scadenza arbitraria]"
"Questioning the Millennium a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"@en
"Questioning the Millennium a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Der Jahrtausend-Zahlenzauber durch die Scheinwelt numerischer Ordnungen"
"千禧年 : 古爾德三問"
"Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitary countdown"@en
"תהפוכות המילניום : מדריך שׁל רציונליסט לספירה-לאחור שרירורית לחלוטין"
"Vraagtekens bij het millennium"
"Der Jahrtausend-Zahlenzauber : durch die Schweinwelt numerischer Ordnungen"
"Il millennio che non c'è"@it
"Il millennio che non c'è"
"Questioning the Millennium"@en
"Der Jahrtausend-Zahlenzauber : durch die Scheinwelt numerischer Ordnungen"
"Questioning the millenium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Qian xi nian"
"Questioning the millennium a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"@en
"Questioning the millennium a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Tahpukhot ha-milenyum : madrikh shel ratsyonalisṭ le-sefirah- le-aḥor sherirutit la-ḥalutin"
"Myterna om millenniet"@sv
"Millénium histoire naturelle et artificielle de l'an 2000"
"Myterna om millenniet"
"O fascíno do millennium"
"Millénium : histoire naturelle et artificielle de l'an 2000"
"Binyılı sorgulamak : kesinlikle keyfi bir gerisayım için rasyonalist bir kılavuz"
"Qian xi nian : gu er de san wen"
"Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Qestioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Questioning the millennium"@en
"千禧年"
"Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"@en
"Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"Questioning the Millennium A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown"@en
"Questioning the millenium"@en
"Milenio : guía racionalista para una cuenta atrás arbitraria pero precisa"@es
"Milenio : guía racionalista para una cuenta atrás arbitraria pero precisa"
"Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide a precisely arbitrary countdown"
"새로운천년에대한질문 : 밀레니엄에관한세가지이야기"
"Milenio : guía racionalista para una cuenta atrás arbitraria pero precisas"@es
"Qian xi nian : Guerde san wen"
"Saeroun ch'ŏnnyŏn e taehan chilmun : milleniŏm e kwanhan se kaji iyagi"

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