The Measure of Times Past : Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226897222
ISBN-13
9780226897226
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 1989
Print length
302 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.70 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
HistoriographyHistory of science
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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 earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.
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