Idea of Time

Idea of Time

Holland, Charles Hepworth

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

02/1999

162

Dura

Inglês

9780471985457

15 a 20 dias

Examining perspectives on time, how and why we measure time as we do, and time in relation to our lives, the author launches a wide-ranging enquiry into this elusive concept. The book looks at time and the universe as a whole, from the "beginnings" of time through to the present.
What do we mean when we talk about time; clocks and calendars; time and life; human time; the artistic view of time; a growing sense of geological time; geochronometry; stratigraphy; the solar system and beyond; cosmology; the philosophy of time; what do we understand when we think about time.
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