What seems to us the doggerel of any modern cemetery may seem well said, or at least quaint, to those who read it (acid rain permitting, which is unlikely) in two centuries' time.
As the editors point out in their introductory essay, there is in fact a rationale for concluding that a $10.1 billion opportunity today to safeguard global GDP in 2200 is not worth taking namely, that if the money were invested at 7% instead of being spent on the project, that sum would grow by more than enough to replace the missing GDP in two centuries' time.
Decimal fractions had been employed for the extraction of square roots some five centuries before his time, but nobody used decimal numbers in daily life.
His view — transposed nearly four centuries in time — still may hold: guilty ruminations and panic attacks can be symptoms of an underlying depression.
I imagine that if Jean de Bruges, the first known organist of Notre-Dame, were brought forward seven centuries in time, he would have little trouble finding his way around Hurricane Mama, his face breaking into a grin.
The world they reflect is full of inconsistencies; weapons belong to both the Bronze and Iron Ages, and objects of the Mycenaean period jostle others from a time five centuries later.
The city of Białystok has existed for five centuries and during this time the fate of the city has been affected by various political and economic forces.
Some of the city's aqueducts date to Aztec times, five centuries ago, and replacing the century-old pipes beneath the city's streets could take decades, if it ever gets done.
The kingdom has a history stretching back five centuries, but during colonial times Barotseland was a British protectorate, a status allowing greater autonomy than the rest of the area with which it was governed.
The earthy yet sophisticated performances catch the core of Mozart that has lasted across four centuries, through times of peace and war.
