Time in antiquity / Robert Hannah.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sciences of antiquityPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, [2009]Copyright date: copyright 2009Edition: [1st edition]Description: xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415331555
  • 0415331552
  • 9780415331562
  • 0415331560
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Time in antiquity : an introduction -- Cosmic time -- Marking time -- Telling time -- Measuring time -- Conceptions of time -- Epilogue.
Summary: 'Before the invention of clocks, what did time mean to people? This book looks at how ancient Greeks and Romans marked the seasons and told the time - from checking the length of their shadows to tracking the rising and setting of the stars. Includes cosmic time, marking time, telling time, measuring time, and conceptions of time.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .H36 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000052502

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-198) and index.

Time in antiquity : an introduction -- Cosmic time -- Marking time -- Telling time -- Measuring time -- Conceptions of time -- Epilogue.

'Before the invention of clocks, what did time mean to people? This book looks at how ancient Greeks and Romans marked the seasons and told the time - from checking the length of their shadows to tracking the rising and setting of the stars. Includes cosmic time, marking time, telling time, measuring time, and conceptions of time.

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