Questioning the Millennium (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Long fiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Christianity, Time, Mathematics or mathematicians, Astronomy or astronomers
Stephen Jay Gould is no millenarian. In Questioning the Millennium, he neither anticipates nor debunks the advent of a new age of prosperity and peace. Rather, the preeminent Harvard paleontologist and author of The Panda’s Thumb (1980) and Full House (1996) here directs his discriminating mind and great storytelling ability to the historic and scientific significance of units of one thousand years.
Although he writes at the end of the twentieth century and at the end of the second millennium, the scholar Gould offers here no prognostications about life in...
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