Time Map: An Introduction to Big History

Author: (American) Christian, translated by Yan Kejia and others
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "The Time Map" integrates natural history and human history into a magnificent and accessible narrative. This is a great achievement, similar to how Isaac Newton, in the 17th century, connected the Earth and celestial bodies using the law of uniform motion; it is even closer to the achievement of Charles Darwin in the 19th century, who demonstrated the connection between humans and other forms of life through the process of evolution. These books expand the geographical and temporal scope of historical research, showing that as early as 1989, when David Christian began developing textbooks, he thought without hesitation, "Why can't we start from the origin of the universe?" His colleagues immediately asked him to share his ideas. Unlike other historians who limited their teaching scope to world history, Christian decided to begin with the universe itself. In the year he jokingly called this research "Big History," he also hesitated, and colleagues from other departments, who were dedicated to teaching different courses in their respective fields, extended a helping hand to him.