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

by Donald J. Wilcox

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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: Historiography History 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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