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Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time

Martin Gorst

The moment of the beginning of time is one of science's Holy Grails, 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. Theology failed Ussher, just as it thwarted Theophilus of Antioch and many others before him.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceKeyword Classifier: Religion -> ReligionAward Category: Royal Society Science Book Prize -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryReligion & Religious Movements

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Royal Society Science Book PrizeMajor2002ShortlistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • James Ussher78%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.