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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Lost Millennium: History's Timetables Under Siegedi Florin Diacu
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book puts out a provocative hypothesis: that history has somehow miscounted, and our past is actually 1,000 years shorter than we thought. Unfortunately, the author seems to spend as much time undermining the hypothesis as exploring it. If the idea is so stupid, why write a book? If there's merit to it, the book did it a grave disservice. At the heart of it, the book had glimmers of potential, but was overall very disappointing. At least it was short. ( ) This book examines the ideas of a controversial Russian mathematician, Anatoli Fomenko, who argues that traditional calculations of ancient and medieval world history are incorrect, by as much as 1000 years. Arguments are brought forward from celestial mechanics, radiocarbon dating, and historical chronology, to suggest that our calendar is wrong, perhaps by a great many years. Maybe "the Middle Ages never happened"? Steve (my husband who is a scientist) found the book to be interesting, but not convincing. Most of the theories are coming from non-historians, and none of the evidence is complete or water-tight. The author is a mathematician, and he cites the work of a Russian mathematician and other scientists, who are working outside their fields with this theory that traditional historical accounts are wrong. Still it's an interesting challenge to historians to re-examine their accepted wisdom, and prove the accuracy or errors in these claims. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"We measure history -- its defining moments, landmark documents, and great figures -- by dates. The French Revolution began in 1789, the Magna Carta was originally issued in 1215, and Julius Caesar died in the year 44 BC. What makes these dates correct, though? Is it possible that there is a massive gap in the historical record and that the calendar we use today is off by about 1,000 years? Sparked by a chance meeting at a conference in Mexico more than fifteen years ago, Florin Diacu sets off on a journey into the field of historical chronology to answer these fascinating questions. This book reads like a detective story, describing in vivid detail Diacu's adventure back in time as he explores the shocking theory of a lost millennium. He meets a colorful cast of characters along the way. Chief among them is Anatoli Fomenko, a Russian mathematician who supports drastically revising historical chronology based on his extensive research in ancient astronomy, linguistics, cartography, and a crucial manuscript by Ptolemy. Fomenko, however, is not the only one to puzzle over time. Isaac Newton, Voltaire, and Edmund Halley, among others, also enter into this captivating quest. The Lost Millennium highlights the controversy surrounding the dating of ancient events, a fascinating tale full of mystery, debate, and excitement. Join the author as he pushes further and further in search of the truth. Praise for the first edition"Diacu gives both sides of the argument fairly but the mere idea that the calendar may be out by as much as 1,000 years is staggering." -- The London Free Press"Intriguing... [Diacu's] account is at its best when he wrestles with the many contradictions of both the accepted and revisionist chronologies... He wades into celestial mechanics with a dizzying discussion of eclipses, astronomical calculations, and algebraic formulas." -- The Globe and Mail"Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book -- like most of those he describes -- will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world." -- Anthony Grafton, Princeton University"--
"A group of Soviet mathematicians claim that there is a massive gap in the historical record--that the timetable for European history is off by over a thousand years. Newton also wondered whether our dating of ancient civilizations was correct. A fascinating look at the real problem of trying to date events that happened in the past"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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