What is Time?

What is Time?
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0198607814
ISBN-13 : 9780198607816
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Book Synopsis What is Time? by : G. J. Whitrow

Download or read book What is Time? written by G. J. Whitrow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging volume, Professor G. J. Whitrow (1912-2000) takes us on a good-humored and wide-ranging tour of the thing that clocks keep (more or less). He discusses how our ideas of time originated, and coaxes the layment to contemplate with pleasure the differences between cyclic, linear, biological, cosmic, and space-time, while providing frequent diversions into fascinating topics such as the Mayan calendar, the migration of birds, and the dances of bees. This reissue of the classic and authoritative What is Time? includes a new introduction by Dr J. T. Fraser, founder of the International Society for the Study of Time, and a bibliographic essay by Dr Fraser and Professor M. P. Soulsby of the Pennsylvania State University.


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