Jaques Le Goff on the Century;
"the first century in which the word and the term were truly applied was the 18th. From then on this convenient, abstract notion imposed it's tyranny on history. Everything thenceforth had to be couched in this artificial mold, as if the century were imbued with life, as if it had a unity, as if things changed from one century to the next."
poorprincess Reviewed by poorprincess on . Time Time and Distance Distance is length it can be measured with a ruler. Time can be measured with a clock. We made the rulers and the clocks. But the rulers are always right. The clocks are not. Heres a quote from a book called "The Calender:History, Lore and Legend" "The calender is subject to two contradictory forces. On the one hand, the measurement of time tends toward ever greater uniformity. Thus the Gregorian calendar has gradually been adopted as a world wide system, Rating: 5