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Donald J. Wilcox

The Measure of Times Past

Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time

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In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earl… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-226-89722-6
  • EAN: 9780226897226
  • Produktnummer: 1648402
  • Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
  • Seitenangabe: 302 S.
  • Masse: H23.2 cm x B16.7 cm x D1.8 cm 460 g
  • Auflage: New ed
  • Gewicht: 460
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


David J. Wilcox is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

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