Maps of Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Christian
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: From the beginning of the universe to 2004
- Setting: The universe, with emphasis on the Milky Way and Earth
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Planets, Earth, Time, Universe, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Sun, Stars, Physics or physicists, Space sciences
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Big History movement was founded in the late 1980's, largely in response to two long-established intellectual trends: the diminishing significance of humanity in cosmological systems and increasing specialization in science and the humanities.
Over many centuries, Earth and the human race have been moved steadily away from the center of cosmology. In the Ptolemaic worldview, dominant through the European Middle Ages, Earth was innermost among concentric transparent spheres. In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus argued that Earth revolves around the sun. A century...
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