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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BD638 .H58 2009b Time / | BD638 .K37 1997 Die Uhren Lügen : von der Gelassenheit im Umgang mit der Zeit / | BD638 .K54 2004 Les tactiques de Chronos / | BD638 .L26 2000 The mystery of time : humanity's quest for order and measure / | BD638 .L33 2007 The images of time : an essay on temporal representation / | BD638 .M45 1964 Das Zeitproblem im 20. Jahrhundert / | BD638 .N67 1924 Notre maître le temps, les astres et les heures, Einstein ou Bergson? |
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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