Questioning the Millennium
A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Revised Edition)
by Stephen Jay Gould
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L'ecrivain scientifique tente ici de comprendre comment un simple probleme de calendrier a pu donner lieu a tant d'elucubrations irrationnelles. Il est question "de la perception des nombres ronds, du soleil et de la lune, de l'age de la terre et de la naissance de Jesus-Christ", pour apprecier le retour cyclique des vieilles questions irresolues que provoquera immanquablement l'an 2000.
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Calendar, Social aspects, Social aspects of Calendar, Two thousand, A.D., Tijdrekening, Calendrier, An 2000, Aspect social, Derde millennium, An deux mille, Vingt et unième siècle, Millennium, New York Times reviewed, Millennium (Eschatology), Two thousand, a.d., Psychological aspects, Chronology, Religious aspects, Vingt-et-unieme siecle, Previsions, Millenarisme, Chronologie historique, TempsTimes
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