Measure of Times Past Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time

Name: Measure of Times Past Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time
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ISBN: 9780226897226

ISBN-10: 0226897222

ISBN-13: 9780226897226

Edition: 1987

Authors: Donald J. Wilcox

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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…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Rise and Fall of Absolute Time



The Relative Time of Herodotus and Thucydides



The Time of the Oecumene



The Time of the Incarnation



The Time of the Renaissance



The Dating of Absolute Time



Conclusion: The Truths of Relative Time



Epilogue


Notes


Index