The mystery of time : humanity's quest for order and measure / John Langone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0792279107
  • 9780792279105
  • 0792279115
  • 9780792279112
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Time: the elusive concept -- Cycles of nature -- Timekeepers of the ancients -- Mechanizing time -- Fine-tuning time -- The Time of our lives -- Deep time.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
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Books 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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