Time and its mysteries : eight lectures given on the James Arthur Foundation, New York University / with a new introduction by Harlow Shapley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Collier books ; AS324.Publisher: New York : Collier Books, 1962Edition: 1st Collier books editionDescription: 186 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
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Contents:
Time / Robert Andrews Millikan -- Time and change in history / John Campbell Meriam -- On the lifetime of a galaxy / Harlow Shapley -- The beginnings of time-measurement and the origins of our calendar / James Henry Breasted -- The time concept and time sense among cultured and uncultured peoples / Daniel Webster Hering -- What is time? / William Francis Gray Swann -- Time and individuality / John Dewey -- Time and the growth of physics / Arthur H. Compton.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .T52 1962 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000076436

Originally published as Time and its mysteries, series I and series II.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time / Robert Andrews Millikan -- Time and change in history / John Campbell Meriam -- On the lifetime of a galaxy / Harlow Shapley -- The beginnings of time-measurement and the origins of our calendar / James Henry Breasted -- The time concept and time sense among cultured and uncultured peoples / Daniel Webster Hering -- What is time? / William Francis Gray Swann -- Time and individuality / John Dewey -- Time and the growth of physics / Arthur H. Compton.

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Paperback edition of volumes 1 and 2 of the official publications of the James Arthur lectures published elsewhere 1932-1939

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