The mystery of time : humanity's quest for order and measure /
John Langone.
- 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.