by Stephen Jay Gould · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020316101
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«Millenium» is Stephen Jay Gould's essay on the perception of time and the millennium change, published by Ed. du Seuil in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Gould analyses why the arrival of the year 2000 unleashed so much irrational speculation from a simple calendar problem. He explores the symbolic weight of round numbers, the cycles of the Sun and Moon that order months and years, the biblical dating of the Earth's age and the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as the confusion between the secular millennium and the millenarianism of the Apocalypse. With erudition, humour and a dose of emotion, he shows how every end of century revives old unresolved questions about time and history.
Original edition of 1998, translated from English (USA) by Nicolas Witkowski.
Recommended for people interested in the history of ideas, the calendar and cultural phenomena around millennium changes.
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential figures in evolutionary biology. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard.
