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 Aeons - Martin Gorst
 Aeons - Martin Gorst ... pursued by devotees and obsessives across the ages. Few were more committed than Bishop James Ussher who lost his sight in his 50 year quest, laboriously outlined in his 2000 Latin pages of Annals - a chronology of all known history - that is now famous only for one spectacularly inaccurate date: 4004BC, the creation of the world.Newest Review: ... and directs TV science documentaries, by the way, but there's no sign of an accompanying series (yet?) Ussher's ... more ... chronology became widely kn
own, largely thanks to Thomas Guy (later to be the founder of Guy's Hospital) who made a fortune by selling Bibles with his dates in the margins. There are probably still a few of them knocking around - the Oxford University Press didn't stop using his dates until 1910. Even when a smartyarse French lawyer suggested that there must have been men before Adam (otherwise where did Cain's wife come from...more |
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Aeons - Martin Gorst: A Brief History of Time (1181 words)
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So when did the universe begin exactly? And why wasn't I invited? Well, according to the calculations of James Ussher, a 17th century Irish bishop, God created the universe on Saturday 22nd October 4004 BC. At 6pm. The bible told him so. Shakespeare would have agreed with him, had he still been alive. In As You Like It, Rosalind describes the world as being "almost six thousand years" old. (Act 4, Scene 1) Well we've come a long way since then. According to a Gallup poll in 1999, only 47% of Americans thought the Earth was less than 10,000 years old. Hmmm, remind me, what percentage of the votes did George Dubya get? ... Read the complete review
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