Date 21 March 2012
Pages 213
Format cm 15 x 23
Price € 20.30
EAN 9782226209023
Publisher Website www.albin-michel.fr

Ages of Earth, Ages of Man

Publisher Albin Michel
If the Earth were 46 years old, the dinosaurs would've only died eight months ago.

Thinking about time is an intrinsically human faculty, but that doesn’t mean it's a purely mental invention. Between the immediacy of lived time and the representation of long historical, geological, or cosmological periods, human beings find it difficult to situate and represent chronologies and moments in a precise manner. This book puts such notions into perspective: starting from the measurement of real time, Patrick de Wever guides us through a reconstitution of the Earth's history.