The Discovery of Time

McCready, Stuart (editor)

ISBN 10: 1570716757 / ISBN 13: 9781570716751

Published by Sourcebooks Inc, 2001

About this Item

Very Good. Teal boards clean and sound with attractive decorative woodcut design throughout; spine lettering intact. Minor splaying at head of text block. Interior clean and unmarked. Printed and bound in Italy with strong production values throughout. No ownership markings.

A handsomely produced popular history of humanity's relationship with time, covering the full arc from ancient sundials and water clocks through medieval calendars, the longitude problem, mechanical clockwork, and the measurement of cosmic and geological time. Edited by Stuart McCready and published simultaneously by MQ Publications (London) and Sourcebooks (Naperville), the volume is richly illustrated with historical images and designed to a high standard ? printed in Italy on quality paper with full-color and duotone illustrations throughout. A solid gift and reference book for history of science and horology enthusiasts.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Discovery of Time
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570716757
• ISBN 13: 9781570716751
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 6.75W x 10H x 0.75D inches 6.75 inches width by 10 inches height by 0.75 inches depth
• Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science
  • Horology

About this title

Synopsis

An accessible text telling the story of how man understands his position in the universe and how this led to astonishing speculation about the nature of time. Scientists, historians and philosophers explain the many different approaches humans have taken to approaching time throughout the world. Softcover. DLC: Time.

Reviews

Even if "after many thousands of years we are no closer than we ever were to being able to say what time is," editor Stuart McCready and his eclectic, learned team of contributors are willing to tackle at least the human perception of it. In The Discovery of Time, scientists and philosophers weigh in on the mysteries of circadian rhythms, the particulars of different calendar systems, the mechanics of timepieces and the infinity puzzles that have confounded people for eons. Complementing the text are quotes from poets and psalms, a glossary of terms and gorgeous color plates depicting everything from etchings on an Egyptian sarcophagus to the Hubble space telescope.

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