The mystery of time : humanity's quest for order and measure / John Langone.
Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0792279107
- 9780792279105
- 0792279115
- 9780792279112
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | BD638 .L26 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000044871 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Time: the elusive concept -- Cycles of nature -- Timekeepers of the ancients -- Mechanizing time -- Fine-tuning time -- The Time of our lives -- Deep time.
Chronicles a visual journey through humanity's efforts to measure and quantify time, from watching the geese fly south for the winter to modern cosmology.
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Humanity's quest for order and measure, index bibliography lavishly illustrated
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